New World Order Form

"The world is an interactive catalog."

In these times of stress

In times of stress, some members of a colony respond by building thousands of toxin molecules and then burst open, killing off the unrelated E. coli around them. Their fellow clones survive, though, and thrive without the competition.

-NYTimes

Man dies after magpie attack

A ROGUE magpie has been captured and destroyed after fatally injuring one man and seriously injuring a tourist. A Mildura man, 74, received severe eye injuries when a local magpie swooped from trees in the Victorian town. The man, who collapsed after the attack, died on Tuesday night at Melbourne's Royal Eye and Ear Hospital. A South Korean tourist attacked by the same magpie was taken to hospital. Department of Sustainability and Environment officers destroyed the magpie.

–news.com.au, 5 September 2003