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...bombed; the blast kills the owner and blows all the clothes off his daughter. Her rescuer appears in the person of Raza Hyder, a Muslim captain in the Indian army. After the partition of the subcontinent, Hyder marries the young woman and takes her "west to the new, moth-nibbled land of God," to Pakistan...
Other aspects of Bower's research combine evolutionary, ecological and behavioral problems. "I'm going to start playing around this summer with a moth species that feeds on catalpa trees which contain large amounts of iridoid glycosoids," she says. The larvae of this species are gregarious and warningly colored but the adults are drab and cryptic. This type of life history suggests that the larvae are unpalatable but as they molt and become adults they are no longer unpalatable. "I don't exactly know what's going on with these guys, but I'm really psyched--it's really unusual...
...corner table in Jonathan Edwards dining hall, Suzanne Ingram checked over a food list for the "existentialist" party she was planning in honor of the conclusion of spring classes. At the next table over, a representative of the residential college was attempting to sell tickets to the Moth Ball, a recently established J.E. rite in which students dance away their academic blues. Three blocks away, Andee Hochman, editor of the Yale Daily News, walked into the corner liquor store to place a final order for tonight's bash. "What's a party without ice?" she said...
...late 1940s, the club was verging on financial failure and its facilities were rapidly deteriorating. "One day we went into an unused squash court and there was $25,000 worth of stuffed animals' heads lying in there all moth-eaten. The club had bought them in good times and then couldn't afford to maintain them." Mittell, then-director of the club, explains...
WASHINGTON--The George Washington (GW) University Board of Trustees, in a decision that came as a surprise to GW students, last moth approved a project to open a Navy Reserve Officers Training Core (ROTC) program on campus...