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Once upon a time, there was a wise and aged turtle who was renowned throughout the swamp for the brilliant and lively gatherings he regularly held at his house. He attracted only the most erudite of animals--sagacious frogs who were experts in insect biology, beautifully plumed birds who would manipulate song and poetry to the highest degree, blinking fish who were masters of modern languages, and many others. They convened daily, not only among themselves, but also with the younger and lesser-learned animals of the swamp, with whom they shared ideas through lively conversation and written scholarship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Humorous Fable on the Friday Collapse of the Mail Server | 12/16/1996 | See Source »

Harvard teammates Matthew A. Carter '99, Karen M. Paik '99 and Felicia Wu '98 said the YMCA orthographic hymenopterous insect (spelling bee) made for an exciting evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Students Win Cambridge Spelling Bee | 3/7/1996 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATURE: SEX AS SUICIDE | 1/15/1996 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Dan S. Aibel, | Title: Testing Irresponsibility | 11/4/1995 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Oct. 16, 1995 | 10/16/1995 | See Source »

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