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Meselson, an authority on chemical weaponry, based his hypothesis on studies of tiny samples of yellow rain collected in Southeast Asia. Electron microscopy disclosed that the samples consisted primarily of pollen husks from tropical plants favored by honeybees. Meselson then compared the substance with bee droppings collected around Harvard and found them remarkably similar, right down to the presence of a bee hair...
...termite fancier, approaches its prey by gluing nest material on its back to serve as camouflage. But, says Beck, the bug's behavior is probably "innate or genetically prewired." Another scientific index is the ability of animals to transmit information through so-called language behavior. Bees, foraging for pollen, return to the hive and perform an intricate figure-eight dance to map the route for other bees. Biologist James Gould of Princeton University says, however, that the dance is in the bees' genes, not their minds...
...town a few miles away, and early last week it reached Hebron. What was going on? Baruch Modan, Director-General of the Israeli Ministry of Health, acknowledged that the first cases might have been caused by some "environmental irritant." Investigators had noted the presence of a yellow powder, possibly pollen, on some windowsills of one school near Jenin, and the air in the vicinity of the school was found to contain a trace of hydrogen sulfide. Doctors in Hebron observed slightly excessive amounts of calcium and sodium in the blood of some of their patients. Said one local doctor: "There...
...from St. Petersburg, Pollen...
Society still considers men "promiscuous by nature" and expects them "to flit from blossom to blossom, spreading their pollen," Shere Hite, author of the controversial Hite Report on Male Sexuality, told a capacity Kennedy School Forum crowd last night...