Word: site
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shutdown in a brain artery by a clot,, called a thrombosis if the clot forms at the site, or an embolism if the clot is formed elsewhere-usually the heart-and travels through the arteries to the brain...
...stylized dance, just as honey scouts report their finds of nectar-yielding flowers. Dr. Lindauer marked bees that he found poking into crannies, and later watched them making their reports. The direction of their dancing told the other bees the direction of the prospective home site they had found. The vigor of their dance was proportionate to the site's desirability...
While each dancing faction is still pushing its own choice, the swarm makes no move. Then one by one the factions dwindle, as scouts become converted to rival points of view. Finally all the scouts are boosting the same site. Only then does the swarm take wing and permit itself to be led to its new home...
This system of peaceful and democratic debate, says Dr. Lindauer. is almost always effective, and generally the choice of the winning faction is the best available site. Once in a while, however, the demo cratic process fails an unlucky colony. In one tragic case, the factions debated for 14 days and reached no decision. At last the swarm built its nest in the open, and perished during the winter...
...mother deity named Ungit, is a pack of lies. But Ungit's priests bully the king into offering up Psyche as a human sacrifice to redeem the kingdom from an ill fate. The heartbroken Orual makes a pilgrimage to recover her sister's bones from the mountain site of the sacrifice, and to her amazement finds Psyche luminously alive. Through Psyche's newly gained mystical vision, Orual is given a glimpse of paradise, but rejects it as an insane mirage. By her lack of unquestioning faith, Orual condemns herself and Psyche to long years of purgatorial labors...