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Scientists so far have not located any new invaders, and a panel of experts suggested that the killer bees' aggressively unfriendly personalities will be blunted as they mate with more docile domestic bees. There is no doubt that the Africanized bees, known as Apis mellifera scutellata, have exceptionally nasty tempers. While they are slightly smaller and no more venomous than their European cousins, they go out of their way to attack, and they do so in overwhelming swarms. Ever since a batch of imported Africanized bees was accidentally released near São Paulo by a Brazilian scientist in 1957, they...
...Your running mate, John Kerry, has alleged that some voters in the November election were intimidated or tricked in some instances around the country. Do you agree with that...
...mistake, your tax refund is too big. Do you tell the IRS? You want a child but your partner doesn't. Do you stop using contraceptives without your mate's knowledge? A friend asks you to write a reference, but you feel he's poorly qualified for the job. Do you refuse? These are among the 245 moral dilemmas, both large and small, posed by A Question of Scruples, a provocative new game from Canada that is already bidding to match the popularity of an earlier north-of-the-border import, Trivial Pursuit...
...first time in her life, Fonda is content to be alone--proof, she believes, of her serenity. Still, she did recently consult a psychic. "She told me with a great deal of certainty that a man was going to come into my life who would be my soul mate and be with me till the end," says Fonda. "Of course, the long haul has gotten a lot shorter." Shorter but, as anyone who walks through her front door will discover, no less intense...
...first time in her life, Fonda is content to be alone-proof, she believes, of her serenity. Still, she did recently consult a psychic. "She told me with a great deal of certainty that a man was going to come into my life who would be my soul mate and be with me till the end," says Fonda. "Of course, the long haul has gotten a lot shorter." Shorter but, as anyone who walks through her front door will discover, no less intense...