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...talk of the aggressive bees, which tend to attack humans and wildlife in swarms. Since the bees pose a potential threat to California's $55 million-a-year bee industry, the state's department of food and agriculture announced last week that it would carry out a search-and-destroy mission for all wild bees within a ten-mile radius of the killer nest. Scientists will also inspect the 9,200 commercial hives in the 97 apiaries in a 400-sq.-mi. quarantine area for the possible presence of Africanized bees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tracking an Ill-Tempered Invader | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...million last June for "humanitarian" assistance). Contributions, FDN leaders say, have flooded in from several Latin American countries, as well as from Western Europe and Asia. "If we take the war into the cities," FDN Commander in Chief Enrique Bermúdez told TIME in a rare interview, "we shall destroy the evil regime like an earthquake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nicaragua: The Contras' Revived Challenge | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...then the other reason for my rejecting massive escalation: because I was convinced that it would destroy any chances for moving forward with the Soviets and China. So we went with a program of Vietnamization, which we coupled with withdrawal, which we coupled with military pressure, nonnuclear, which we coupled with the negotiating track. We went on all four tracks. And we wound up with not the most satisfactory solution in 1973, but it was a solution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What the President Saw: A Nation Coming Into Its Own | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...will always opt for youth's reckless hurtle into the unknown. In his forest, the prime evil is civilized man, and "back to nature" is a great leap forward. So the father in this dizzy, rapturous adventure picture must allow Tomme to do his own thing; indeed, he must destroy the part of civilization he has erected in order to let his son live a few more years in innocence. Boorman's triumph is to reclaim, for himself and the viewer, that Edenic state where domestic tragedy takes on the sheen of myth, and where art is its own purging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Prime Evil | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

...early July, they found it too much to swallow in one gulp. Peter Kelly, head of U.A.W. Local 160, in Warren, Mich., said that the plan "could lead to the demise of the U. A. W union movement as we know it." He complained that the proposal would destroy the seniority system, in which the best jobs go to workers with the longest service. Kelly pointed out that while job security would be guaranteed for 80% of Saturn's workers, the remaining 20% could still be laid off. The 25-member U.A.W. executive board rejected the plan and began negotiating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GM Picks the Winner | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

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