In the News:  Nov. 16 2002

Harrison Ford  Gets Ant Named After Him.

(AP)_ A US scientist has named an ant after Harrison Ford.

Edward Wilson has called a Central American ant, Peidole harrisonfordi, 
to honour the actor's conservation work.

Ford is Vice Chairman of the American society Conservation International.

Wilson, a Harvard University scientist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, 
has also named a shiny brown ant from Mexico, Pheidole mooreorum, a
fter Intel Corporation co-founder Gordon Moore and his wife Betty.

The Moores are leading environmental philanthropists.