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...those descriptions of 12-year-old Lo’s “pre-adolescently incurved back, that ivory-smooth, sliding sensation of her skin through the thin frock.” Of course, such detached precision—each word set down deliberately as a pin through the thorax of a butterfly—was for Nabokov a conscious choice, allowing him to scale ever more crystalline summits. “For me,” he wrote, “a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss...
Pollen As bees collect pollen for food, they also act as sex workers, scattering stray grains among male and female flower parts, allowing the plants to reproduce Compound eyes (2) Simple eyes (3) Antennae THORAX HEAD ABDOMEN Wax secretion Nerve center Poison sac Hindgut Pollen basket Honey stomach Midgut Heart...
...There is always the possibility, however slim, that the same gene causes hostility and a faster rate of pulmonary decline, or that both come about as a result of childhood adversity.” The results of the study will be published in the October issue of Thorax, an international journal of respiratory medicine...
...Ancient Genes The premise of Jurassic Park -- that material from blood cells found in the thorax of a prehistoric fly might be cloned to re-create a living dinosaur -- was echoed eerily in the science journals. Not only did scientists extract bits of DNA from the bone marrow of a 65 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex fossil, but they also recovered intact DNA from an insect trapped in amber back in the Mesozoic era, 130 million years...
...Abdel Aziz Merzoughi, 25; Ben Ahmed Chaoval, 25; and Mongi Ben Ab-dollah Saadqoui, 26. One of the two who were captured replied to questions in Arabic and claimed that he came from Lebanon. Wounded in the abdomen, he is expected to survive. The other was struck in the thorax and was in a coma. Austrian police said that all three were Arabs...