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Scientists Breeding Super Bees 248

Elliot Chang writes "Over the last five years the world's honey bee population has been steadily dwindling, with many beekeepers citing 2010 as the worst year yet. In order to save these extremely important insects, scientists are working on breeding a new super honey bee that they hope will be resistant to cold, disease, mites and pesticides. If all goes well, the new and improved insect will continue to pollinate our crops for years to come."

Comment Re:Largest economy? (Score 1) 588

I'm no linguistics major but my stab at this is that in ".5 books", "books" is the subject and .5 makes it non-singular. In "half a book", the more grammatically correct way to say it would be "half of a book". Then it's easier to see that "half" is the subject, which is singular, and "of a book" is merely a prepositional phrase.

Comment Re:Largest economy? (Score 1) 588

I think both views are correct. If you approach learning a language by purely studying, being older is more beneficial because it's basically just another intellectual pursuit and you have more intellectual capacity. On the flip side, learning a language through immersion would be easier as a kid because you're not trying to overcome years of thinking and processing information in another language.

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