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...Since the bees pose a potential threat to California's $55 million-a-year bee industry, the state's department of food and agriculture announced last week that it would carry out a search-and-destroy mission for all wild bees within a ten-mile radius of the killer nest. Scientists will also inspect the 9,200 commercial hives in the 97 apiaries in a 400-sq.-mi. quarantine area for the possible presence of Africanized bees...
...submachine gun, the letter said in stilted, jargon-filled language that the attack had been the work of a joint "politico-military front in Western Europe with NATO as its main target." It called the Rhein-Main base a "pivotal point for war against the Third World and a nest of spies...
...plan: "I was raised 1 10 miles from the Indy 500 and 100 miles from the Kentucky Derby. I love cars and horses, but I've never been to either. Someday I'll go." Latching onto the record, Wheaties, coin minters and T shirt entrepreneurs are feathering his nest egg. His diary will be published within three weeks after he collects the record, and Andy Warhol is already at an easel. Rose has refused "all the money in the world" to put Japan at the end of his itinerary. Waggling one of the black Japanese bats he has taken...
...take revenge on some threatening situation, if not the one that might have been uppermost in people's minds. Fictional heroes of the period may have offered similar distractions, functioning as little "bombs" in their own right. McMurphy of Ken Kesey's novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Yossarian of Joseph Heller's Catch-22 were at war with the world, and both nuked the societies that sought to contain them. One took on the scientists, the other the military: a one-two punch for the common man. Perhaps these explosions were not diversions after...
Reagan's study beside his bedroom is the focus of his healing. With fresh flowers and family pictures, it is the nest that the President taiks about. "I'm a picture freak," says the First Lady. She brought some of the photographs to the hospital, then took them back home. She updates them frequently. "But the pictures taken at the hospital--I think I'll just put them away...