Word: cockroach
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...experiment was in fact a good deal more complex than creating a "cockroach dating agency," of course...
...achievement" was summarized by radio talk show host Don Imus on the air as a "crackpot professor from Yale creating a cockroach dating agency," Schreiber says...
...longed for something very, very spare," he says of his favorite book, Far Tortuga, and he notes with pride that there's only one simile in all its 408 pages. "Simply putting down the thing itself was so astonishing," he says. "I often think of the antennae on a cockroach coming out from under a ship's galley, and the light catching these two extraordinary, delicate mechanisms -- that light, and those things, to me is the echo of eons of evolution. What do you need with a simile or metaphor...
...former evolve from the latter, or did both come from a single, common ancestor species? There were arguments for both options -- until a team at the American Museum of Natural History applied PCR to the genetic material of the amber-clad termite. DNA doesn't lie: the cockroach is not the termite's parent after all, but only its sibling. Which says nothing about how to get rid of either...
...utopian bliss for the cockroach supporters. Later in the day, they became entangled in a brief verbal confrontation with six supporters of Larry Head, a candidate whose name did not appear on either party's primary ballot...