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...deafening shrill that can be heard almost a mile away is the mating cry of the male cicada. His instrument is called a tymbal, which produces a popping sound in his hollow abdomen. Males from each of the three Brook X species have their own song. One sounds like pha-roah, another makes a sizzling noise, and the last--and rarest--makes a rhythmic call that sounds like a lawn sprinkler...
What’s more, the Bush administration’s rhetoric on fighting for democracy in Iraq is increasingly hollow. As Sen. Ernest Hollings, D-S.C., put it, “We’re trying to win the hearts and minds as we’re killing them and torturing them.” If we want to assist in the growth of democracy and openness, then our own government needs to be democratic and open itself...
...powerhouse have been enjoyed only by a tiny percentage of Indians. As a Goldman Sachs report recently noted, India is home to one third of the world's software engineers and one quarter of its undernourished population. And for the impoverished majority, the message of a "Shining India" rang hollow, at best, or worse, sounded like rich folks showing gloating over their prosperity in the presence of the wretched multitudes. It was hardly surprising that the BJP changed tack just weeks before voting, talking less about the "Shining" than about the need for continuity and stability. But nobody...
...afterthought of a game tacked on to the hollow end of a tantalizingly close-to-glory season...
...Organismic and Evolutionary Biology (OEB) department toils away at some of the most important questions for mankind with help from its internationally esteemed collections. Meanwhile, Summers—who declined to comment for this column through a spokesperson—looks the other way, rehashing his hollow rhetoric about undergraduates knowing the difference between a gene and a chromosome and angling to position Harvard as a leader in the biomedical sciences. This neglect of the other “half” (well, a little more) of the sciences may soon take its toll, as the OEB department?...