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...Williams was awarded the American Association for the Advancement of Science prize for an outstanding contribution to science. This resulted from his work on insect metamorphic...
Water for an I.O.U. Author Braddon lived to know new horrors which made those of Pudu fade away like old insect bites. He was marched to Thailand and assigned to the work gang building a Bangkok-to-Rangoon railroad. "Down there is much malaria-tomorrow you will be dead," said his guards mockingly. Countless Britishers and an estimated 130,000 Malay natives learned that the Japs were telling close to the brutal truth. Every crosstie under 400 miles of track was paid for with a human life, though, thanks to R.A.F. bombers, no train ever completed a trip. Author Braddon...
...during the refectory silence, the pale, fastidious young novice burst out: "Oh, what lovely legs!" He referred, as he later told his superior, to the legs of an insect approaching his soup plate, but the fathers took a dark view of the matter. After further exposure to Rolfe's eccentricities, the fathers expelled...
...British saw what had to be done. Said Operations Director General Sir Harold Briggs: "You can't deal with a plague of mosquitoes by swatting each individual insect. You find and disinfect their breeding grounds. Then the mosquitoes are finished." To separate the Communists from their supplies, Briggs planned to resettle the Chinese villagers in large new settlements beyond the danger areas. Special police were recruited, the army reinforced, planters armed. But somehow the plans did not work. In the villages the Communists continued to spread propaganda and collect food. More than 2,600 bandits were killed, another...
While he was still at Harvard, he began his enormously erudite, monumental work on the gall wasp, a tiny insect of which some 3,000 species exist. Kinsey traveled 80,000 miles collecting gall wasps, and he measured, catalogued and preserved 3,500,000 specimens to demonstrate their individual variations. Under a microscope, he took and recorded 28 different measurements on each wasp...