Thursday, May 10, 2007

Disappearing Honeybees

10 a.m. (ET)

"Colony collapse disorder" is the name scientists have given to the problem plaguing honeybees across the U.S., Canada, and parts of Europe. As much as a quarter of the honeybee population is missing, and in some areas the percentage is as...

Cullen Murphy: "Are We Rome?" (Houghton Mifflin)

11 a.m. (ET)

As the world's sole superpower, it's easy to draw parallels between the United States and the Roman Empire. A look at what the U.S. has, and doesn't have, in common with the Ancient Roman Republic.

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