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...fuss over this particular mosquito's mating call? First off, the findings, published in the Jan. 9 issue of the journal Science, dispel a few former assumptions about A. aegypti's behavior: that the female is deaf and a passive participant in the mating ritual and that the male cannot hear frequencies above 1,000 Hz. In fact, the Cornell researchers have established that both the male and female of this subtropical species can detect frequencies as high as 2,000 Hz and that they are equal participants in the courtship process...
...conversations before they ship out. Shilling's proposal says more than 80% of kids between the ages of 3 and 5 in the U.S. regularly use computers and that communicating with a "parent" via one would "capture their interest and imagination." Companies interested in participating have until Jan. 14 to tell the Pentagon just how they would do it. Sometime around April, the Pentagon plans to award as many as three contracts of up to $100,000 each to begin work on what it calls its Virtual Dialogue Application for Families of Deployed Service Members...
...willing to embrace significant change, then you're looking at the right person. But if you just want to keep the trains running on time, don't ask me to do this job." - when offered her first position in the Treasury in 1997, Washington Post, Jan...
...more effete crowd, Miami is holding its 32nd annual Art Deco Weekend festival, and this year's theme is Argentina. Tango dancers will demonstrate their skills on stage on Ocean Drive, and there will be Argentine-wine tastings and screenings of films from the country. The Jan. 16-18 celebration kicks off with the Art Deco parade, complete with stilt walkers, giant puppets and unicyclists. Ocean Drive, between Fifth Street and 15th Street...
...Deal with Hamas The most immediate challenge facing Israel is that posed by Hamas. Gaza's tragedy has for days been playing out on the world's TV sets. By Jan. 7, more than 700 Palestinians, many of them noncombatants, had been killed. But there's something tragic, too, in Israel's predicament: in any confrontation with its enemies, it is damned if it does and doomed if it doesn't. Across Israel's political spectrum there seems to be a consensus that Hamas' provocative rocket barrages could not go unanswered - though whether Israel's response has been proportional...