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Female bees are the ones that do the stinging. When you get stung by a bee, a venom sac is left behind with the barbed stinger stuck in your skin. The stinger can keep injecting venom into your body until it’s removed. In most cases, this will cause sudden intense pain, as well as swelling, redness, and itching around the sting. Symptoms will persist and potentially worsen until the stinger is removed....

PLAGENS: Are you aware that you’re considered the second most conservative critic out there, after Hilton Kramer? HUGHES: I am? Well, at least I’m to the left of Louis XIV, and Kramer’s not. PLAGENS: You don’t like many artists under 50. HUGHES: I don’t think the age of the artists one likes is the criterion for conservatism. I’ve never thought of my job as one that seeks and slots young talent into the art world....

When bees land on water, the liquid sticks to their wings and therefore they can’t quickly fly away. To test out how bees are able to escape from such situations, researchers took a pan of water, which they let go still. They placed bees in the water and pointed a light at their tiny bodies so they would cast shadows in the container. The team behind the study, published in the journal PNAS, watched as the bees used their wings to create waves that pushed them forward....

But before the superhero fandom swept the world, there was the odd superhero movie that was just starting out at the beginning of this hugely impressive trend, films like the first X-men film in 2000, the first Tobey Maguire Spider-Man in 2002, and Hellboy in 2004. Nestled in among these in 2005, 3 years before the first Iron Man film came to cinemas and changed the face of superhero film-making history, was a Disney Film by the name of Sky High....

Friday’s draw paired the Premier League rivals together, with Liverpool the only side to have beaten City in the league so far this season. Liverpool won 4-3 at Anfield to gain revenge for a 5-0 thumping received at the Etihad Stadium, when Sadio Mane was shown an early red card for a high challenge on Ederson. Begiristain suggested City would have preferred to have avoided Liverpool but expects an entertaining match, with Liverpool hosting the first leg on April 4....

That, in a nutshell, is why support for health-care reform is fragile and shallow. Yes, many people of goodwill support extending coverage to the 47 million Americans who, according to the Census Bureau, had no insurance for all or part of 2006. An awful lot of the insured, though, worry that messing with the system to bring about universal coverage, even if it allows more newborns to survive, might also hurt the quality and availability of care that they themselves get (“If I have trouble getting my doctor to see me now, what will happen when 47 million more people want appointments?...

Oleksiy Gromov, deputy chief of the Main Operative Department of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said during a Thursday briefing that the airfield is located in the Gomel region. The BBC reported in February that the airbase is 19 miles from the Ukraine border. Gromov said there are currently “activities to equip [a] Russian military base” at the location, reported Eastern European media outlet NEXTA....

Anatoly Isachenko, the presidentially appointed deputy chairman of the upper chamber of the Belarusian parliament, told fellow legislators of the six-nation Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) during the group’s 13th plenary session that allies Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan face “a difficult geopolitical situation,” a challenge exacerbated by external actors. “I want to highlight the increased risks of direct foreign interference in the internal affairs of the CSTO member states,” Isachenko said, as quoted by the official Belarusian Telegraph Agency (BelTA)....

Footage showed Stepan Latypov lying on a wooden bench inside the Minsk courtroom as onlookers screamed and police officers stood over the activist. Another video showed Latypov being carried out to an ambulance with blood on his shirt. Local media and human rights group Viasna-96 reported that Latypov is still alive. “Belarusian activist, political prisoner Stsiapan Latypau cut his throat in the courtroom today,” opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanouskaya tweeted. “He was threatened with the persecution of his family if he didn’t admit himself guilty....

England and Belgium have been two of the most entertaining teams in Russia this summer with both sides scoring freely and staging major upsets on their way to the semi-finals of the 2018 World Cup. A final chance to play for their country on the grandest stage of them all was all the encouragement any side would need, but there was also the matter of who gets the bronze medal....

There’s a long tradition of jailhouse conversions; many are temporary, aimed at gaining leniency from judges, while others seem genuine. Malcolm X discovered Islam while in a Massachusetts state prison. Oklahoma-bombing conspirator Terry Nichols claimed to have worn out four Bibles during his trial, and serial killer David Berkowitz—Son of Sam—converted from Judaism after an inmate told him Jesus Christ loved him and wanted to forgive him. Chuck Colson, special counsel to President Richard Nixon, once described as the “evil genius of an evil administration,” was facing arrest over Watergate charges when he read C....

Bell might have turned the corner in that department on Friday, with two doubles and a triple as part of his four-hit night that helped Pittsburgh to a 7-3 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers. Bell came into the game with two extra-base hits in July and was slugging .378, third-worst among qualified first basemen. He credited a change in mindset rather than anything mechanical. “It’s just one of those things where you get your butt kicked so many times in this game, you’ve kind of got to take a step back and realize that sometimes it’s you making it harder than it is,” Bell said....

He adjusted quite nicely. Bell singled to break a seventh-inning tie, and the streaking Pittsburgh Pirates beat the skidding Chicago White Sox 3-2 Wednesday. “He’s ready to go. There’s no doubt about it,” Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said. “His preparation has always been good. I just like the fight that he’s got when he gets in the box.” Pittsburgh won for the seventh time in eight games and improved to 10-2 in interleague play this season....

The former titleholder lived up to his word in avenging his February 2014 defeat to “The Dragon.” He used a calculated striking attack to defeat Machida by split decision (30-27 and 29-28 for Mousasi, 29-28 for Machida) at The Forum in Inglewood, Calif., and live on DAZN. SN scored the fight 30-27 for Mousasi. “I had to fight this way, I couldn’t take a lot of risks,” Mousasi said in his postfight interview....

The main event for the show will feature Sergei Kharitonov who takes on Linton Vassell. The co-main event will see Roger Huerta face Sidney Outlaw. The entire show promises to be a barnburner of an event, with top fighters from around the world participating. Being the must-see event that it is, here’s where, when, and how you can see Bellator 234. Bellator 234 Location and Date Location: Menora Mivtachim Arena, Tel Aviv, Israel....

Gegard Mousasi crowned king of middleweights at Bellator 250 Gegard Mousasi made his vast experience and size difference count when he fought the reigning Bellator welterweight champion Douglas Lima with the vacant middleweight title on the line in the main event of Bellator 250. Mousasi emerged victorious via unanimous decision after five rounds of back and forth action in the Bellator MMA fight. Two judges scored the fight 49-46 and another judge scored it 48-47 in favor of Mousasi....

The Bears have agreed to a one-year contract with the free-agent wide receiver following his release from the New York Giants in February. Cruz, who had spent his entire seven-year career in New York, exploded on to the scene in 2011 when he caught 82 passes for 1,536 yards and nine touchdowns. He followed that up with another 1,000-yard season, but injuries eventually made it impossible for him to get back on the field....

The Disney Plus prequel to the 2017 Beauty and the Beast film was initially developed in March 2020 as a six-episode series that was set to feature Josh Gad and Luke Evans reprising their roles as Gaston and LeFou, respectively. The show, which would serve as an origin story for the iconic characters, was picked up for two additional episodes in 2018 and Briana Middleton was cast as LeFou’s stepsister, Tilly....