Nevertheless, after friends and relatives, scientists are found to be the most trusted source of volcanological information, while government authorities are generally distrusted (Barberi et al. 2008; Gavilanes-Ruíz et al. 2009; Haynes et al. 2008a; Eiser et al. 2009).
Female bats never called "dibs," perhaps because in the wild they are more likely to forage near relatives, the scientists say.
"What most Republicans know about the society and the economy comes from cable news, talk radio, right-wing blogs and the amplification from emails and other social media shared by close friends and relatives," political scientist Norman Ornstein said via email.
The glassy-winged sharpshooter is a more dangerous relative: according to scientists at the University of California at Davis, this sharpshooter can fly higher and farther than the blue-green and can consume huge amounts of plant sap a day, the equivalent of a 150-pound human's drinking 4,300 gallons of liquid.
Real, intimidating barriers -- like young scientists' relative lack of experience and expertise, not to mention the crowd of scientists swarming around the speakers after a scientific session -- stood in the way, sometimes literally.
Relatives say the scientists are being scapegoated, while senior military officials go unpunished.
The existence of a secret prewar C.I.A. operation to debrief relatives of Iraqi scientists -- and the agency's failure to give their statements to the president and other policymakers -- has been uncovered by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
The Central Intelligence Agency was told by relatives of Iraqi scientists that Baghdad's programs to develop unconventional weapons had been abandoned, but the C.I.A. failed to give that information to President Bush, even as he publicly warned of the threat posed by Iraq's illicit weapons, officials said.
The Central Intelligence Agency was told by relatives of Iraqi scientists before the war that Baghdad's programs to develop unconventional weapons had been abandoned, but the C.I.A. failed to give that information to President Bush, even as he publicly warned of the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's illicit weapons, according to government officials.
INTELLIGENCE GAP -- Relatives of Iraqi scientists told the Central Intelligence Agency before the war that Iraq had abandoned its programs to develop illicit weapons, but the C.I.A. did not pass that information to President Bush, who was warning the public of the dangers of Saddam Hussein's unconventional weapons, officials said.
Since interest in the carcass was not just limited to Eleanor's relatives, the observing scientists tentatively concluded that elephants had a "generalised response" to the dead.
