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...Edward Durrell Stone, the era's go-to guy for Establishment swank. Within a single vast building, it held three theaters and a grand foyer that's one of the biggest rooms in the world. But it was also cut off from the city behind a rat's nest of roads and highways...
...bear are equally as valid as those that a scientist can bear.” However, Purcell admits that despite her frequent collaborations with natural historians, she has encountered difficulties in attempting to reconcile her approach with scientists’ when depicting biological collections.“Egg and Nest,” Purcell’s latest exhibition, opened yesterday. It will be on display through March 15. The exhibition features images of the eggs and nests of various bird species. Photographed from a collection of the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology in California, the pictures attempt to enhance...
...bottom in the second quarter of this year, and says some recovery might be seen in the second half of this year. Shiraishi adds that manufacturers could start growing again around 2012, when a wave of Japan's baby boomers will reach age 65 and begin to spend their nest eggs. "They've been saving a lot to prepare for their retirement," says Shiraishi. "That could be a stabilizing factor for Japan." One catch, he says: they probably won't buy more cars...
...brainpower, you want a population made up of the fittest individuals you can get. A queen that has the genetic mettle to crank out lots of good eggs that produce lots of good babies doesn't need any competition from other, lesser females setting up a nest nearby. Even the queen herself is not allowed to fool with the gene pool once it's been set. She mates only once in her life and stores all the sperm she'll ever need for the thousands of eggs she'll produce. (See pictures of the insect world...
...hydrocarbon-based odors, and the eggs they produce smell the same way. Ants that can't reproduce emit no such odor. Liebig and Smith produced a synthetic hydrocarbon in the lab that had the same olfactory properties as the natural one, then plucked a few innocent ants from a nest and dabbed the chemical on them. When they were returned to the colony, they were promptly attacked - never mind that they had essentially been framed...