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...smaller and no more venomous than their European cousins, they go out of their way to attack, and they do so in overwhelming swarms. Ever since a batch of imported Africanized bees was accidentally released near So Paulo by a Brazilian scientist in 1957, they have been buzzing northward at a rate of more than 200 miles a year. They have killed thousands of animals and some 150 people during their migration. They entered Honduras about half a year ago and were spotted in El Salvador in June. At this rate the bees could reach the U.S. border...
Well, it may no longer be a joke. The killer bees, imported from Africa to Brazil for research, escaped in 1957, and their offspring began advancing slowly northward. Last week a killer colony was confirmed for the first time on American soil, in an oil field some 60 miles from Bakersfield, Calif. The bees are believed to have hitched a ride north on drilling equipment shipped from Latin America. The killers are no more venomous than domestic bees, but they are easily provoked and attack in great numbers. They were first reported in California by an oil-field worker...
...rosary in Gone With the Wind.) But the church virtually disappeared after the war. It aided the civil rights movement, but its numbers didn't rebound until the 1980s, as Yankees flocked to the Sunbelt's technology and service industries, and as Mexicans and Central American migrants moved northward for poultry-processing and other low-wage jobs. From 1980 to 2000, the region's Catholic population had doubled, to more than 12 million...
This second release from orchestral octet Hem was recorded in New York City and Slovakia—very far from the southern home of the “countrypolitan” sound that they try to channel. Judging from this bloodless collection of songs, the northward sonic transplant did not take...
...return, residents promised not to seek a City Council moratorium on Harvard’s northward expansion. For the University, this is quite a relief. Harvard emerged this fall from a three-year fight with Riverside neighborhood activists, who petitioned the council to set stringent height limits on University buildings in the area. Harvard reached a deal with the council in October, but the University’s concessions to residents carried a hefty $15 million price tag, according to one council member. So not only did Harvard’s deal with Agassiz residents generate good will...