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Glad Tidings. There the bee unlimbers its sense of taste, which is specialized to test the quality of nectar. A sugar content of 5% does not interest a bee; such nectar would spoil in the hive before it could be concentrated into long-keeping honey. A 20% sugar content is satisfactory, and 40% makes the bee wildly enthusiastic. It sucks up some nectar and marks the flower with its own scent from a gland on its abdomen. Having thus staked a claim, it heads back to the hive to spread the glad news...
...Boultings have succeeded in persuading London itself to act out the crisis as if it were really happening. Their film uses striking documentary detail, a wealth of British character bits; it uses no twists or gimmicks to spoil a logical, harrowing account of how the metropolis tries to head off its doom and at the same time prepares to meet...
...eyes of Texas were upon three of the four top football teams in the country last weekend, and it was quite a weekend. In downtown Dallas, exuberant Texans and holidaying Oklahomans put on so many pre-and post-game celebrations that the Dallas police, without trying to spoil the show, hauled in 452 celebrators in 48 hours. In a day-night doubleheader in mammoth Cotton Bowl, 151,045 spectators also saw some high-class football...
...Heart. The teacher must also know how to organize his course, reminding students of the whole, "pointing out the peaks still to be scaled, the valleys unexplored," as they examine each of the parts. "The last three or four days of teaching can make a good course or spoil it," warns Highet. "Usually they are given up to a mad rush through the last ten experiments, a sketchy outline of the century still to be covered, an earnest but hollow adjuration to 'look over this for yourselves, with special attention to,' or something else of that kind...
...hopes of getting the hand for the Louvre, since the Greek government no longer permits its antique treasures to leave the country, but he did not especially care: "Even if a whole arm was discovered we probably would not want to fit it onto our statue because it would spoil the whole effect. A statue without a head and with only one arm looks rather awkward...