"Fruit" flies?

For Fruit Flies, Gene Shift Tilts Sex Orientation
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL,
International Herald Tribune
"When the genetically altered fruit fly was released into the observation chamber, it did what these breeders par excellence tend to do. It pursued a waiting virgin female. It gently tapped the girl with its leg, played her a song (using wings as instruments) and, only then, dared to lick her - all part of standard fruit fly seduction.

"The observing scientist looked with disbelief at the show, for the suitor in this case was not a male, but a female that researchers had artificially endowed with a single male-type gene. "

Lord of Dogtown

When California Started Sliding on Little Wheels
By A. O. SCOTT

"Lords of Dogtown," directed by Catherine Hardwicke from a script by Stacy Peralta, is about a minor pop-cultural earthquake made possible by the serendipitous convergence, in Los Angeles in 1975, of two otherwise unremarkable events. One was a drought that emptied the region's swimming pools, leaving their smooth, curving concrete interiors available for other uses, and the other was the arrival, in a Santa Monica surf shop, of a paper bag full of urethane wheels. Attached to a skateboard, these wheels enabled a skilled rider to execute hard turns; long, easy glides; and quick changes of direction. "

I've never seen Mr. Scott have an orgasm over a movie in the Times before... (Hint: he rather liked it.)