Word: larva
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that it churned out not just amino acids but also chemicals that can trigger allergies in nut-sensitive consumers. The company quickly scrapped the product. Last spring a study published by Cornell University showed that pollen from some strains of corn with built-in pesticides can kill the larva of the Monarch butterfly, a pest by nobody's standards. "When butterflies start dying," says Kucinich, "I think it's fair to start asking questions...
...smarter than we thought -- at least when it comes to remembering where they put that nice, juicy bug. Behavioral scientists studying scrub jays said that the birds displayed what is known as episodic, or event-based, memory. The jays were able to remember which side of a tray their larva was buried on, and how long ago they put it there; if the larva was past its sell-by date, the birds didn't even...
...Wars" system, championed by Ronald Reagan, was derided by Democrats and eventually abandoned by most Republicans as too costly and ineffective. But it lives on in the hearts of defense contractors. "In fact, Star Wars never died," says TIME's Mark Thompson. "It went from butterfly to moth to larva to caterpillar; which means, basically, from weapons in space to weapons on the ground. And the Pentagon now talks about putting some sensors in space, creating a "thin" system that could stop five or ten missiles but not thwart a massive attack." Thompson says that Forbes may not be taking...
...song Jeremy became a bona fide rock anthem), it has established an adversarial relationship between itself and everyone else on the planet (the band's last album bore the confrontational title Vs.), and, yes, it's made the inevitable pilgrimage to MTV Unplugged. Now what? Having gone from larva to butterfly, does the band flutter to the ground, its brief season done? Not exactly. Pearl Jam's vigorous new CD, Vitalogy, shows that, having come to the end of one rock-group cycle, the band still...
...droves and flocking to what few exist. Principal David Lehman of West Michigan Academy of Environmental Science, near Grand Rapids, has a sheaf of applications several inches thick for the year 1997, though his school has no track record. This summer he got a letter from Amy and Ron Larva of Grand Rapids. Their child was not yet born, they wrote, but they wanted to reserve a kindergarten spot for the year...