Wanted: Summertime Pool Directors

Summertime

Dandelion Wine is a lyrical coming-of-age story set in Green Town, Illinois, in the early 20 th century (1). Douglas Spaulding is 12 years old, and summertime has arrived. When it's a new summer, you need new shoes. In fact, you need " Royal Crown Cream-Sponge Para Litefoot Tennis Shoes. " But Doug doesn't have the money. He bargains with Mr. Sanderson, the proprietor of the local shoe store: Y...

Summertime blues

A successful honey bee forager tells her nestmates the location of good nectar and pollen with the waggle dance, a symbolic language that communicates a distance and direction. Because bees are adept at scouting out profitable forage and are very sensitive to energetic reward, we can use the distance that bees communicate via waggle dances as a proxy for forage availability, where the further t...

Summertime blues

Previous studies have shown that children's blood lead concentrations tend to increase during hot summer months. In this issue, Lih-Ming Yiin and colleagues from the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute at Rutgers University and the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in Piscataway, New Jersey, explore whether some of this elevation can be explained by seasonal increases in t...

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Wanted—Skulls

In order to determine the characters of a race, it is necessary that comparison should be made of at least twenty skulls. It is further desirable to have as many of the bones of the skeleton as possible, as comparison of pelvic and long bones give important results in determining race peculiarities. The Hunterian Museum, now under the direction of Professor Flower, F. E. S., is especially inter...