Thursday, December 2, 2010

New York Times Blog: November 30, 2010

The majority of articles on the front page of Times lately have been war-based. I usually don't like these war-based articles but today I read, "North Korea World Guessing" and learned a lot about the situation that going on between North Korea, South Korea, and China. The journalist, David Sanger explained how since last year South Korea has been anticipating the collapse of the of the "world's most brutal family dynasty". The article explained how if North KOrea were to fall China would try to reunite the North and the South. The U.S. has been informed through cables that China would clearly 'not welcome' and U.S. military presence north of the DMZ.' Reading articles like these somewhat scare me because it's just a guessing game of who is going to act first and what the plan of action will be. I hate to be so cliche, but why can't we just all get along? i'm definitely not cut out for war correspondence.
"In Mystery (and Culture Clash), Some Brooklyn Bees Turn Red" by Susan Dominus. I didn't expect this article to be actually about bees, I thought it was some code word for something. But nope, apparently theres this woman in Brooklyn, Cerise Mayo, who raises bees in the middle of Brooklyn. Her bees are given the best opportunities, "acres of urban farmland strewn with fruits and vegetables, a bounty of natural nectar and devotion." She commented on how she assumed her bees shared the same values, "a fidelity to the land, to food sources,free of high fructose corn syrup and artificial food coloring." However when her bees started coming back weird colors and making the honeycomb weird colors, Mayo was at a lose. One of her friends jokingly suggested that the bees were gorging themselves on Dell's marschino cherry juice. Mayo was dumbfounded when she realized her healthy junk-food free bees were traveling such a ways to gorge themselves when they had plenty to forage right on her farm. I guess the question really is, if the bees can't resist resist such artificially processed food, how are we supposed to?

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