An organization known as the Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) was formed in August 1943 as an amalgamation of the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron, started by Air Transport Command employee Nancy Love in September 1942, and the Women's Flying Training Detachment, founded in November...

WASP BITES WASP Many types of colonial insects share information via body contact. One of the more mysterious forms of such contact is known as social biting, and species that engage in the practice don't necessarily restrict themselves to dainty nibbles. Polybia occidentalis wasps,...

New Yorkers might be forgiven for thinking that Catholicism long ago became a prerequisite for our state’s highest office. We haven’t elected a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant as Governor since Nelson A. Rockefeller, who left office in 1973, or a Jew since Hebert Lehman, who ended...

“Is that spelled A-N?” “No, it’s spelled A-N-N. Like the standard spelling of the English woman’s name Ann.” “And your last name, M -A- R- L-O?” “W-E. Like Christopher.” Silence. “Or Philip—you know, the detective?”...

The significance of juxtaposition between the old and young characters in the Classic Greek play, "The Wasps" by Aristophanes.