Because honey is composed of saturated sugars, it sucks up water, depriving bacteria of the liquid they need to survive and multiply.

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"Because the honey bee brain is smaller and more accessible than any vertebrate brain, we hope to eventually be able to produce an accurate and complete model that we can test within a flying robot, " said Dr Marshall.

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Research in Australia and New Zealand suggests that honey heals because it attacks bacteria in several different ways at once.

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Mr. CHRISTA BELL (Poet): Because your eyes remind me of watermelon rinds scraped clean of their meat by narrow teeth because today your skin is not burnished honey but a bitter herb chew to hold the grief at bay, because your lips are the purple grapes of (unintelligible).

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No family should have to set aside an acceptance letter for college because they realize, you know what, honey, we just can't afford it.

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Honey isn't recommended for babies because of the possibility it carries spores that could lead to botulism.

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And she's going to say, wait a minute, honey, stop tripping off this or that because what you're doing is you're messing up your child - is she's doing that because she cares and because she knows that she did something in error and she would like to see you do it correctly.

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