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Finally, “The land literally flowed with milk and honey.” (More on this later...

Author: By Victoria Ilyinsky, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: This Word is Killing Me, Literally | 10/30/2006 | See Source »

...that includes alfalfa-fed beef ?ORANGES 17.8 billion lbs. ?GRAPES 15.7 billion lbs. ?APPLES 9.9 billion lbs. ?WATERMELONS 3.8 billion lbs. ?CUCUMBERS 2.2 billion lbs. ?ALMONDS 915 million lbs. ?SQUASH 815 million lbs. ?CHERRIES (sweet) 502 million lbs. ?HONEY 175 million lbs. *2005 production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Buzz on Bees | 10/29/2006 | See Source »

Pollen As bees collect pollen for food, they also act as sex workers, scattering stray grains among male and female flower parts, allowing the plants to reproduce Compound eyes (2) Simple eyes (3) Antennae THORAX HEAD ABDOMEN Wax secretion Nerve center Poison sac Hindgut Pollen basket Honey stomach Midgut Heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Buzz on Bees | 10/29/2006 | See Source »

QUEEN Lives one to two years Lays up to 2,000 eggs a day or 400,000 a year. Each colony can have only one queen, so she seeks out and destroys any rivals Wax walls Nectar transformed into honey Hatchlings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Buzz on Bees | 10/29/2006 | See Source »

...Slate article said: “The ground was not especially sticky in Little Women when Louisa May Alcott wrote that ‘the land literally flowed with milk and honey,’ nor was Tom Sawyer turning somersaults on piles of money when Twain described him as ‘literally rolling in wealth,’ nor was Jay Gatsby shining when Fitzgerald wrote that ‘he literally glowed?...

Author: By Anton S. Troianovski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Cuts Columnist for Lifting Material | 10/27/2006 | See Source »

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