environmental sciences Foster care The large blue butterfly, Maculinea arion, knows how to fool ants into raising their caterpillars. But when the ant, Myrmica sabuleti, disappear there survival is at stake, a study has shown. The butterfly lays eggs on thyme flowers and the caterpillars fall on the ground after hatching. Thanks to a chemical caterpillars secrete, ants mistake them for
Parliamentarians in Jamaica, like in most places, are used to drama. But an enactment recently left many in tears. The Sistren Theatre Collective from Kingston staged a play, A Slice of Reality on the Ground, to make a strong case for the legalization of abortion, while Jamaica
The 1979 Egypt-Israeli peace deal has not done much for cultural relations between the two countries. Only two books in Hebrew have been translated into Arabic in Egypt. There are now plans for Arabic translations of Israeli writing. The decision comes in the wake of recent criticism of Egypt
The word green in Chinese is used to describe web-surfing free from pornography. From July 1 personal computer users in China will have a Green Dam Youth Escort to chaperone Internet users. That
US lawmakers are debating the extension of copyrights law to include payment to performance artists for music played on AM and FM radio. The law, as it stands today, requires broadcasters to pay songwriters, but not music performers. The Bipartisan Performance Rights Act will, if passed, require AM and FM radio stations to pay a flat rate to both songwriters as well as performance artists,
Health insurance companies in the UK, US and Canada own almost US $4.5 billion worth tobacco stocks, a recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine revealed. But smokers are handed the short end of the bargain. The companies usually charge a higher premium from smokers for insurance cover or completely exclude them from coverage. The US study said Sun Life, which offers
