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...agriculture, the effects have been largely positive: vastly increased food supplies. But the effects of modified insects are largely unknown. Would insect predators be affected? Would the mosquitoes better transmit other illnesses? More research is needed, but some effects might not be known unless the mosquitoes are actually allowed to breed in the wild...

Author: By Matthew S. Meisel | Title: Shooting The Magic Bullet | 3/22/2007 | See Source »

Being called a fag hag—even when it is primarily by my gay friends—seems to imply that when searching for the next victim of my friendship, I sniff out gays. Yet I’m not an insect drawn to the homosexual flame. Women with gay friends often get lumped together as some strange breed, but the phenomenon is actually quite simple. Just like meeting politicos though a roommate in the College Democrats, having one friend in the Harvard Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA) will get you in with...

Author: By Emma M. Lind | Title: Confessions of a Fruit Fly | 3/2/2007 | See Source »

...Jose, six days’ accomodation, and your own personal tour guide. Spend three days in the rainforest and climbing the Arenal volcano, and three days sleeping it off on the beach at Manuel Antonio. Return with a tan your friends will hate you for, along with unidenitfiable insect bites. www.statravel.com You Get What You Give Give a little bit back and head down to New Orleans for the Katrina relief effort. Register with up to 14 friends and camp out at volunteer center Camp Hope to spend a week making a difference. One week at Camp Hope: $100 Flights...

Author: By Allegra M Richards, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Spring-Break Broke? | 2/21/2007 | See Source »

Wood’s research is highly interdisciplinary. By interacting with biologists, he has been able to study the mechanics of insect flight and mimic these biological processes using microrobotics technology...

Author: By Anupriya Singhal, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Not Your Grandma’s Robot | 2/5/2007 | See Source »

...While insects travel by varying modes of locomotion, Wood focuses on hovering, which he believes is the hardest, but most useful, insect behavior to mimic...

Author: By Anupriya Singhal, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Not Your Grandma’s Robot | 2/5/2007 | See Source »

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