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C&L's Late Nite Music Club: The Hollies - The Air That I Breathe
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I just went to see Hugh Grant's very good thriller Heretic, and was not
disappointed.
All three actors gave top-notch performances, lead by a tight scrip...
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hey, AC
I was rereading your piece on honey and had a thought: maybe we ARE the culprits [surprise, surprise] when it comes to the plague on the honey bees.
we've been genetically altering food crops to produce their own pesticides for a while now. the critics of the practice have asked, 'what does this mean for human consumption of these crops?' and have been assured that the amounts of toxins are too small to affect us.
but--what about the honey bee? I'll bet the toxins can't target the boll weevil and leave the honey bee alone. so, as it pollenates the plants, it sickens and either dies on the spot or carries the affected pollen back to the nest where it wipes out the entire population of its home.
once again, humans leaped without looking where we were going to land-- and one more species bites the dust.
we could well be next-- as we probably deserve to be.
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