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...industrial pollination may be starting to take its toll on the bees. Many keepers are feeding their colonies corn syrup, sugar and pollen substitute to artificially bulk up hives ahead of the almond season, while killing off parasitic mites with pesticides. Plus, parking the hives smack in the middle of this land of almonds "is comparable to us going to McDonald's every day for a month," says Johnson. "In the past, you'd have a blend of sources, and [the bees] seemed so much healthier." Johnson and many bee researchers believe this monocultural diet may have contributed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard from Hughson | 3/12/2009 | See Source »

...Harvard Rebels: We know how to rebel. We come in here wanting to be doctors and work for NGOs, but we rebel and become I-bankers. You can try and kill us, but we have no souls...

Author: By Daniel K Bilotti and Vincent M Chiappini, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Prestige and Mobility: Macaroni Mascots | 3/12/2009 | See Source »

...Iraq with a dinner," he was quoted as telling the court. "So I took the first shoe and threw it, but it did not hit him. Then spontaneously I took the second shoe, but it did not hit him either. I was not trying to kill the commander of the occupation forces of Iraq...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraqis Divided over Jail Sentence for Shoe Thrower | 3/12/2009 | See Source »

...Costa's kill-two-birds-with-one-stone approach to drug control focuses on changing the economic and social conditions in areas susceptible to drugs and drug-related crime, which will in turn provide a long-term solution to the drug epidemic. The approach includes social reintegration of addicts and dealers, firmer legislation against slum real-estate lords who allow illicit activity to continue on their grounds, and the general transformation of the "urban wastelands" that have become breeding grounds for the drug market. Along with trying to motivate UN member states into action on this initiative, the paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Disturbing Rise of Drug Gangs | 3/11/2009 | See Source »

...attacks had a depressing sense of inevitability. Earlier this month, MI5 - the United Kingdom's intelligence service - raised the security threat posed by dissident republicans to "severe," meaning an attack was regarded as highly likely. Furthermore, the murder in Craigavon wasn't the first time dissidents have tried to kill police officers. An off-duty policeman was shot by the Real IRA in County Tyrone in November 2007, but survived. Security forces in Northern Ireland also say they have foiled major terrorist attacks by dissidents, including defusing a 300lb car bomb left outside a County Down town last month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Policeman Shot Dead in Northern Ireland | 3/10/2009 | See Source »

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