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If fruit flies could talk, that's probably how they would call bouts in the Fruit Fly Fight Club in Edward Kravitz's lab at Harvard University. Kravitz, a neurobiologist, has been pitting fruit flies against one another for decades and has painstakingly videotaped thousands of hours of fruit-fly...
Such alertness may not seem like a bad thing, except that in a second paper in the same issue of Science, Giulio Tononi at the University of Wisconsin found that sleep appears to function as a critical shutoff valve for the fruit-fly brain. After a period of sleep, the...
The public and political pressure that led to former General Motors Chief Executive G. Richard Wagoner’s resignation may have unfairly overshadowed his part in reinventing the company after its decades-long decline, said several of Wagoner’s Harvard Business School classmates. Wagoner, who graduated from...
For weeks, Netanyahu struggled to build a coalition. The result is a Rube Goldberg-like contraption with 30 Cabinet ministers and seven deputy ministers. (Britain, a nation nearly 10 times the size of Israel, has only 22 Cabinet ministers.) Opposition leader Tzipi Livni, of the centrist Kadima Party, called the...
China's Gift to Taiwan: Fake Pandas! Taipei Times "Taiwan-China relations were dealt a severe setback yesterday when it was found that Taipei Zoo's "pandas" are not what they seem. Zookeepers discovered at feeding time yesterday that the two pandas are in fact Wenzhou brown forest bears that...