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...while photographers fed on young Wills' misbehavior. He picked a fight with a mite-size flower girl at the wedding of Prince Andrew and Fergie and made gloriously juvenile faces at little girls who were presenting flowers to his grandmother. By the time he was eight or so, he had calmed down and was generally more reflective than Harry. He also showed precocious self-possession. With his ancient great-grandmother he is a model little gentleman, helping to guide her down church steps and holding the umbrella over her head...
...crisis are honeybees, the pollinators par excellence among insects. Since being imported from Europe more than 375 years ago, they have spread rapidly throughout the New World. Honeybees typically pollinate 15% of the U.S.'s crops, but lately the bees have been hard hit. Already debilitated by a nasty mite infection, thousands of colonies were exterminated during last winter's unusually severe cold. During the honeybee heyday after World War II, the U.S. had nearly 6 million hives. Now there are less than half that many, and mites continue to plague the remaining colonies. "We are working desperately to produce...
Unfortunately, it was later revealed that many of those lovable Villanova players were involved in NCAA infractions, and more alarmingly, were involved with drugs--and not just marijuana. And worst of all, Villanova's mighty mite of a point guard, Gary Mclain, told this sordid tale in a shocking expose in Sports Illustrated. All of a sudden the under-dog got pretty unattractive...
Allister Sparks is South Africa's Walter Lippmann: knowing, patrician and a mite holier than thou. Like Lippmann, he is both chronicler and confidant of the alite. He was the editor of the Rand Daily Mail, a crusading antiapartheid newspaper, and wrote The Mind of South Africa, a tour-de-force history of apartheid, published in 1990. In Tomorrow Is Another Country (Hill and Wang; 254 pages; $22), which Sparks calls a sequel to that book, he has crafted a narrative of the momentous events of the past decade that culminated in the election of Nelson Mandela as the first...
...want diversity--Torpedo's got it. At any given time you could see a 17-year-old paired with a 34-year old on the ice. And who knows, maybe even some playing time for a teenage goalie, a mite at 5'8", 155 pounds...