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Through a teardrop of ancient amber -- fossilized tree sap as hard as plastic and as translucent as glass -- the scientists beheld their quarry: a small stingless bee that shared the earth with giant mastodons. With sterile instruments and gloved hands, microbiologist Raul Cano and his student Monica Borucki proceeded with an improbable experiment. First they delicately extracted the bee's diminutive digestive tract. Then they placed the tissues in nutrient-rich broth. Within a week the mixture turned cloudy, a sign that bacterial spores, dormant inside the bee for 25 million to 40 million years, had suddenly, miraculously surged back...
Critics fear the proud father is grooming his children for political office as well. "Someday their sons will rule part of this country," predicts Luis Gabriel Cano, who has succeeded his assassinated brother, Guillermo, as publisher of Bogota's crusading newspaper El Espectador. Unless the Colombian government can now break the hold of the cartel in Cali, Cano's warning may have come too late...
...Colombia, more than 40 journalists have been murdered by the drug lords in the last ten years, Cano said. "More than 30,000 people have been killed, the judicial system paralyzed, and the populace scared," he added...
...acceptance speech, Cano praised the tough anti-drug policies of the new Colombian government of President Virgilio Barco. But he said the most hopeful development was the change in attitude by the "consumer countries" of the West...
...They have finally recognized that their response must go beyond just saying `No,'" Cano said...