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...green at it as a stock character in a rural comedy; killing a chicken was a new and horrible experience, and at first, he ate a comb of honey a day, until he found he could sell them for 55?. The pittance Dirks got from his 76 acres on Camano Island in Puget Sound would have sent most men back to the city, but he eked out his farming by kidding himself in a column ("City Bred Farmer") for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. He signed off each column with the number of eggs he had collected that...
...premises. "Khokhlov is still here and getting terribly on one's nerves," daughter Tatiana Tolstoy noted testily. "First, he doesn't eat anything; because he says he has no right to eat potatoes obtained by the labor of others: then he eats dates, and honey in the comb...
...Nectar is a dilute solution of various sugars. Bees put it in uncapped comb-cells, evaporate it to honey by fanning it with their wings. If it contains too much sucrose (cane sugar), which would make it tend to crystallize, the bees add an enzyme (invertase) from glands under their thorax. Thus the sucrose is turned into levulose and dextrose, which taste almost as sweet...
DiSalle also got help from President Truman. The President ordered all Government agencies to contribute lawyers, economists and other experts to the ESA until its own staff is complete, and authorized DiSalle to use FBI men and other Government investigators to comb the country for price-control violators. With that kind of help, the OPS hoped to root out violators early and punish them heavily (maximum penalty under the law: a year in jail, $10,000 fine) to discourage other violators. "There will be no wrist-slapping," promised a price official...
...polarized.* This tells the position of the sun even when the sun is not directly visible. When the scout bee steps forward during its wagging dance, the direction in which it steps tells the other bees where to fly. If it moves vertically upward on the comb face they know they should fly toward the sun, guided by polarized sky light. A run 60° away from vertical tells them to fly 60° to the left of the sun. Careful experiments show, says Dr. von Frisch, that bees briefed by the honey dance seldom deviate more than...