Tse-Tse flies and Ethiopia

There is an interesting article in this week’s Science (Science 20 July 2007: Vol. 317. no. 5836, pp. 310 - 313) about a program to use sterile males to try to short-circuit breeding in the tse-tse fly:
“The scheme sounds simple. Produce as many as a million male flies a week, make them sterile by blasting [...]

Suspect on the run in Evolution death-threat case

Dang it! Pharyngula keeps beating me to the news:
7/20/07: An anti-evolutionary Christian extremist suspected of sending threatening letters to biology professors at the University of Colorado has gone on the lam, according to a staff member familiar with a police investigation into the matter….
“Staff at the biology department have been issued a [...]