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...Harvard Professor Matthew S. Meselson is persisting in his claim that yellow rain is instead the feces of wild honeybees. Bee feces, Meselson and a Yale colleague have found, bear strong resemblances--in size, appearance, and characteristics--to alleged samples of yellow rain, many of which in fact contained pollen. Now back from a trip to Thailand, the scientists say they observed honey bees on defecation flights spraying the yellow spots that the government says are the residue of Soviet chemical weapons...
This skepticism began with their observations that bee feces bore striking similarities--in size, appearance, and characteristics--to alleged samples of yellow rain, many of which contained pollen...
...looks, from birth onward: "Elwyn was not a weakling or a sickly child, but he was not robust . . . his hay fever was so severe that his father took him (with the rest of the family) to Maine for the month of August in the hope of escaping the pollen that made him miserable." After enduring these hard knocks, this youngest of six children of well-to-do parents went to high school in Mount Vernon, a leafy suburb north of Manhattan, then on to Cornell, where he picked up the nickname Andy (after Andrew D. White, the university...
...Wings of Eagles, Pollen...
Meselson: Yes, but we have found spots where the composition was very different. That's also true with bee feces because no two bees eat the same meals. They eat differently. They store the pollen heterogeneously and they eat it heterogeneously. So if this had been an agent of warfare, with no two spots being the same, it would mean that whoever is doing this makes teeny little batches, makes them all different, and sprays them all separately...