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...Bush, among others, has always stressed-- by saying, "Certainly there are also elements that can favor peace." When he met with moderate German Muslims in the city of Cologne that August, Benedict delivered a fairly blunt warning that "those who instigate and plan these attacks evidently wish to poison our relations." In Rome, he removed Archbishop Michael Fitzgerald, a relatively dovish Islam expert, as head of the Vatican's office on interreligious dialogue and replaced an ongoing study of Christian violence during the Crusades with one on Islamic violence today. And he has stepped up the Vatican's insistence...
...matched by Newsom’s lulling, swirling harp-play. The 17-minute “Only Skin” invokes Pynchon and Tolkien simultaneously, with its setting impossible to place and Newsom’s word-choice at its evocative peak. “We tramped through the poison oak / heartbroke and inchoate,” she whispers and shrieks at once, in the middle of a song that changes tone, meter, and story repeatedly, and yet remains remarkably cohesive. It may well be the prevalence of nature imagery, and its inversion, that earns this San Franciscan...
...Even though on Beijing's worst days you can actually taste the poison in the air - an eye stinging, throat rasping experience similar to breathing in anti-mosquito fogger - the capital is theoretically one of China's better cities when it comes to air pollution. Some days it doesn't even make the list of China's top 10 most polluted cities. Still, competition is fierce: China boasts 15 out of the world's top 20 most polluted metropolises...
Stinger When deployed, it is left in the victim; the bee dies soon after, but the sac pumps poison...
Pollen As bees collect pollen for food, they also act as sex workers, scattering stray grains among male and female flower parts, allowing the plants to reproduce Compound eyes (2) Simple eyes (3) Antennae THORAX HEAD ABDOMEN Wax secretion Nerve center Poison sac Hindgut Pollen basket Honey stomach Midgut Heart...