Word: nesting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...facts are more complicated. Every colony of fire ants can produce dozens of winged queens, each of which can fly miles to set up a new nest. Though an application of Mirex might kill 95% of the ants in an area, says EPA Entomologist Sam Fluker, "to get rid of that last 5% might take an additional 100 treatments." In fact, the battle against the ants has yielded so little and cost so much-$148 million in federal and state funds to date-that Harvard University Zoologist Edward O. Wilson calls it "the Viet Nam of entomology...
...nice place just to visit," concluded Actor Jack Nicholson after two months on location at the state mental hospital in Salem, Ore. Nicholson has just completed filming One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, a movie based on Ken Kesey's 1962 novel and co-produced by The Streets of San Francisco Star Michael Douglas. The film stars Nicholson as an asylum inmate ("crazy as a fox") and features former Oregon Governor Tom McCall, Jazz Singer Seatman Crothers and some of the hospital's 600 inmates in its cast. Nicholson, who anticipated that his assignment would...
...that reason he may prove to be less than a skilled politician. Still in the seminary in many ways, he argues that "government isn't a religion. It shouldn't be treated as such. It's not God; it's humans, fallible people, feathering their nest most of the time...
...increase in nest year's undergraduate scholarship budget from the administration's $3.3 million figure to $3.5 million...
...said the group's present concerns include assisting in minority recruitment, establishing contact with alumni, starting a "Big Sibling" program for nest year's black freshwomen and publishing a newsletter for members and alumni...