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More than Tribal. Western Orthodoxy has been slow to catch on: there are only 3,000 Western Rite Orthodox in about 50 scattered parishes around the world. Even many Eastern Orthodox regard their Western Rite brethren as second-class Christians. But the Rev. William Schneirla, a top-ranking Orthodox theologian from St. Vladimir's Seminary in New York, argues that the Western Rite "is in some respects the most important recent enterprise of Orthodoxy." It gives force to Orthodoxy's claim to be a truly ecumenical church rather than a "tribal religion" and provides "a new instrument...
...bees were put in a closed hive, loaded on a T.W.A. airliner and flown to New York. They completed their trans-ocean journey between feeding periods and were placed in the room that Dr. Schneirla had prepared for them...
...once difficult because ocean-going ships cannot move fast enough to carry bees a sufficient distance between daily feeding periods. Modern airliners can. This year Von Frisch's associates, Dr. Max Renner and Dr. Werner Loher, prepared for the great experiment. With the help of Dr. Theodore C. Schneirla of New York's American Museum of Natural History (Dr. Schneirla is an ant man, but he doubles in bees), they built two identical sunless bee-testing rooms: one in Paris, one in New York. Then they trained a hive of bees in Paris to feed from...
...when does a queen begin her reproductive life? Dr. Schneirla is not sure, but he has a theory. While the queen is in a bivouac, she is always surrounded by a dense mass of workers, which struggle wildly to lick some substance exuded by her body. The males, no matter how eager, cannot get anywhere near...
...when the queen is on the march from bivouac to bivouac, she is relatively unguarded. Then, thinks Dr. Schneirla, the hitherto frustrated males may get their chance...