Word: wings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Elias, and sophomores Carlin Wing and Colby Hall will start in the top three spots this year. Bajwa is confident that the Crimson's depth will put it over...
...result, Bush, who has never attended a single Yale reunion, came to view with contempt much of what he saw as a hypocritical and pretentious left-wing academic establishment...
...general university fund as well as through the student government. The students who sued objected to the activities of groups such as Amnesty International, the Madison AIDS Support Network and the Campus Women's Center, and they have asked for the right to withhold their support. Several right-wing law organizations, such as the Washington Legal Foundation, have submitted amicus briefs urging the Court to end the University of Wisconsin's fee system...
...their brief lives, the females of one species of twisted-wing insects called Xenos peckii live inside common paper wasps, feeding on their hosts' innards. Sightless and flightless, these tiny parasites exist only to be impregnated. The luckier males mature inside the wasps, emerge at adulthood and fly away, using their olfactory sense and their eyes to find and mate with a female inside another wasp...
...what eyes! Peering through a microscope at a twisted-wing male, Cornell neurobiologists Elke Buschbeck, Birgit Ehmer and Ron Hoy were struck by the unusually large lens facets in X. peckii's eyes. The compound eyes of most insects have hundreds of much smaller facets. Each focuses on a handful of photo receptors and produces only a single point in the insect's visual field. But the researchers, reporting last week in the journal Science, found that each of X. peckii's 100 eyelets is really a complete eye with its own retina, consisting of some 100 receptors, that samples...