Neither Malaysiakini, an independent website, nor Haraka, an opposition periodical, have managed to obtain a licence to publish a daily newspaper.
Olivia Judson, our science correspondent, has won the 1997 Glaxo Wellcome / Association of British Science Writers award for the best feature on a science subject in a specialist periodical.
"America has in fact transformed journalism from what it once was, the periodical expression of the thought of the time, the opportune record of the questions and answers of contemporary life, into an agency for collecting, condensing and assimilating the trivialities of the entire human existence," he moaned.
When that happens they all simultaneously mature, emerge, mate, lay eggs if female, and then die.Most biologists believe that the odd lifestyle of periodical cicadas is an example of a survival strategy called "predator satiation": the insects emerge in such prodigious quantities that predators cannot possibly eat them all.
Some meet regularly, others share a new literary periodical and two recently produced a Turkey supplement for the Atlanta Review.
MOST people in the financial markets probably don't read History Today, the specialist periodical.
And it is the time, as readers of just about any periodical know, to reflect on the biggest stories of the year.But how to define that?
If you are stranded on a desert island and can have only one periodical air-dropped to you to keep up with world news, our hope is that you would choose The Economist.
Why?In August 1843 when James Wilson, a Scottish hatmaker, published the prospectus for The Economist, a new periodical he planned to launch, he described it as "a weekly paper, to be published every Saturday".
Neither Malaysiakini, an independent website, nor Haraka, an opposition periodical, has managed to obtain a licence to publish a daily newspaper.
Brood X, it seems, is splitting up, and a new 13-year cicada population is evolving.Meanwhile, Keith Clay, of Indiana University in Bloomington, is studying the idea that periodical-cicada broods are getting bigger over the decades.
