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...deadline journalism's inherent defects is that, in order to organize the material and give it punch, a reporter seeks out a narrative line - sometimes the most obvious or sensational, sometimes a merely conventional version, the one that has been arrived at by consensus of the journalistic hive. The narrative line in turn dictates an attitude, the atmosphere out of which the journalist writes. Maybe the story line is that George W. Bush is a little stupid. Or that Al Gore lies about things he did in the past. Everyone loves to hear a story. But is it true...
...bear broke into the hive last night and laid waste the bees' civilization. When we walked out in the rain to the beeyard, in a clearing in the pines just beyond the orchard, we found a little apocalypse: thousands of bees milling and fussing among the ruins of their elaborate work - white supers strewn here and there, frames with vandalized honeycomb scattered up the path the bear had taken when he lumbered carelessly away...
...course, you wouldn't know it from reading the Harvard Gazette--Pravda on the Charles River. "A hive of student activity," one story gushes, while another piece in the University's official publication lauds it as the College's "social...
SKILL Seeking pollen, they attract various airborne chemicals and take them back to the hive...
MISSION Find land mines. Explosive devices leak small amounts of chemicals into the air. Researchers hope that by analyzing the chemical content in a hive, they can determine if explosives are in the area...