Word: hives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ostensibly the memoir of a triple murderer awaiting execution, the novel portrayed a Spanish countryside awash in madness, vengeance and bloodshed. The work was harshly attacked. Mordantly, Cela dedicated the book "to my enemies, who have been of such help to me in my career." In 1951 came The Hive, which was banned outright by the Franco government. This terse, episodic novel retailed the incidental miseries of some 160 inhabitants of a squalid Madrid...
...truth is that the town is already a tourist hive in season, and George Bush has nothing to do with it. The population swells to around 30,000 in the summer, and 19,000 cars cross the narrow two-lane bridge into Dock Square each day in peak season. Gridlock comes with the Coppertone. "Ocean Avenue is already a zoo," concedes selectman Drew. Adds Tom Bradbury, whose family has been in town for generations: "The Bush factor changes the name on the souvenir, but the souvenirs were already here...
...Harvard Square, a hive of cigarette-filled psuedo-bistros and bullshit conversation, the mug of coffee is no longer an un-self-conscious staple of a social gathering. Instead, it is the dainty focus of 1980s pretention--tiny china thimbles of eight-dollar espresso, or perhaps Ethiopian Harrar for the poseur with an international social conscience...
...another confusing tidbit. A city councilwoman on that same Monday tossed a number-two man at the city's Department of Public Works from the payroll. The DPW has been revealed as a swarming hive of iniquity by Chief Tony Mancuso's probe, and its deputy director. Edward Melise, lost his DPW job a while back when he was convicted of extortion Mayor Cianci had been nice enough to put Eddie on $503-a-week paid leave, but the council didn't figure that was the right punishment...
Nevertheless, there are examples of behavior suggesting that animals can process information and make judgments. Gould points out that honey bees, fed sugar water that is gradually moved away from the hive, anticipate where the food will be placed. Seagulls break open shellfish by dropping them on hard surfaces, flying low when their target is small. At the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center in Atlanta, chimpanzees have been conditioned to communicate through symbols and are able to distinguish between signs that mean food and those that refer to nonedible items. Says Duane Rumbaugh: "Apes have the capacity to use symbols...