Word: insection
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...GENERATIONS OF BIOLOGY STUdents have learned to their morbid delight, insect-mating behavior can be pretty bizarre. The classic example is lovemaking among the praying mantises, where the female has sex with her partner, then eats him for dessert...
...book flies open and almost immediately, the questions in section one look remarkably familiar. Perplexed, you flip to the analogies. You've definitely seen them before. As a tentative smile surfaces on your face, you turn to the first reading comprehension passage. Yes, it's that same one about insect mating rituals...
DIED. EIJI OKADA, 75, Japanese screen actor admired around the world for his roles as an architect in the French film Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1959), a head of state in the U.S. drama The Ugly American (1963) and an insect collector in the Japanese classic Woman in the Dunes (1964); in Tokyo...
...William Blake's illustrations from The Song of Los. It comes out as a yearning apotheosis of the Jewish-American princess, in a semitranslucent nightie from some celestial boutique, languidly holding a bouquet and wafted aloft. Above her is the sun, looking like an expensive Christmas ornament. An insect-winged, bifurcated, slender-is flying toward it, helplessly attracted. It is Florine's eager soul, rising to the em pyrean. Bendel's she loved; and next to Bendel...
Bats' built-in echolocation system is so finely tuned that it can detect insects' footsteps, changes in air currents caused by vibrating insect wings, even the ripple in a pond as a minnow's fin breaks the surface...