Word: crossbreeding
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Apiculturist Warwick Kerr figured he had some perfectly good reasons for bringing 20 African queen bees into his native Brazil nine years ago. Though it is known to be ferocious, the African bee produces 30% more honey than either the Italian or German bee that long dominated Brazilian beekeeping: it...
Last week, at the National Western Stock Show and Rodeo in Denver, Wegner never even got to count one. The luck of the draw gave him Bull No. 89, a cream-colored crossbreed that had never been successfully ridden. Grasping the rails of the chute, Wegner gingerly eased himself onto...
"One reason jazz is not salable," says Mann, "is because the musicians and audiences stopped enjoying themselves. People used to swing and be happy in a club Now they must come out emotionally destroyed. We play simple, enjoyable music. My audience doesn't know it's supposed to...
Williams decided to crossbreed the two styles. His runners hold their hands palm down, in the classic American style, but the incoming runner slaps the baton upward into his teammate's palm, alerting him just before the pass by shouting "Hey!" In the 440-yd. relay, where even a...
A high school French and German instructor back home in California, Tomor now spends his weekdays teaching carpentry to 50 boys at the Institute De Educación in Malloco. Chile. On weekends, he boards a wheezing bus and rides 30 miles to San Manuel, where 70 peasant families work...