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...Highlight Reel: 1. On the "waggle dance" that a nectar-gathering honeybee does in the hive to alert others that there's an orange tree nearby: "She heads to the dance floor and does her waggle dance for the spectators, running up and down the comb while wiggling her butt and buzzing. The angle she runs ... corresponds to the angle from the sun of the path that will lead directly to the orange tree. The duration of the waggle dance tells other bees how far to go - loosely, three quarters of a mile per second of waggling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why We Should Care About Dying Bees | 9/24/2008 | See Source »

...Down, Get Shakin’, and Get Bakin’. Inspired, I ran out onto the field as the Crimson finished the third overtime on top. I somehow, someway, was the first to hit the ground running. I was also the first target. A Yale policeman with a big butt came on a beeline right for me. But you know what? I was so freaking ready. Quick jab to the right, spin move out of his grasp, and I was in open field. I sprinted as fast as I could, got between the players, and I was safe...

Author: By Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: WALLY'S WORLD: Rushing 101: How To Storm the Field | 9/22/2008 | See Source »

...name is the butt of a joke, the source of a laugh and the title of a scandal.' JACK ABRAMOFF, former Republican lobbyist, before being sentenced to four years in prison for corruption and tax evasion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

...they bring it up. By turning to his POW experience in order to deflect any question, be it about his character, wealth or memory, McCain appears to risk trivializing his own heroic personal story in much the same way that Rudy Giuliani's constant invoking of 9/11 became the butt of jokes during his presidential campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is McCain Overplaying the POW Card? | 8/28/2008 | See Source »

...players to children with cerebral palsy. The exercises may not look like much--they generally require no equipment other than a mat and maybe a towel and some straps--and they may not feel that strenuous, but you know the next day that you've had a workout. (The butt-walking component is called mashing, a turbocharged massage that is supposed to release lactic acid from overworked muscles to help speed their recovery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Resistance Stretching | 8/7/2008 | See Source »

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