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...company Martin Marietta has designed a solar-powered microchip transmitter that can be glued snugly onto a bee's back, enabling entomologists to follow the swarm's movements and observe the bees' mating and foraging habits. The transmitter emits an infrared signal that can be detected up to a mile away. The company is still testing the tiny bee tracer, which it hopes to sell to the Agriculture Department and other researchers...
Some 10,000 people took advantage of sunny weather last week to attend the town of Lisburn's annual "fun run." The final race, a 13-mile half marathon, had just ended, and the assembled throng was beginning to disperse. Suddenly the peaceful scene was shattered by an explosion that turned a blue van slowing for a traffic light into a fireball. All six passengers, British soldiers who had participated in the races, were killed. The only wonder was that there were no fatalities among onlookers, though eight of them were injured...
...Vice presidents at Ashland Oil, they had a combined 35 years of experience in the oil business. McKay earned $150,000 a year and lived with his wife and two children in a handsome four-bedroom brick house in Russell, Ky., a quiet neighborhood less than a mile from company headquarters. Williams, who lived nearby, frequently traveled to New York City and Washington as Ashland's executive in charge of corporate lobbying. In 1983, however, the two men felt they had to blow the whistle on their employer: they told federal investigators that Ashland Oil had paid bribes to Middle...
...Crimson took an early two-seat lead over a rebuilt Bulldog crew at the one-mile mark and slowly but relentlessly built...
Harvard's victories in the two-mile freshman race and the three-mile junior varsity tilt gave the Crimson its first sweep over the Elis since...