"Blair P. Houghton" > wrote in message
...
> frazer > wrote:
> >washingtonpost.com
> >
> >Cicada: The Other, Other White Meat
>
> Periodicity: 17 years.


Yes, that was explained in the article. It kinda sounds like you were
merely looking for an excuse to use a snazzy word like "periodicity."

Color me impressed.


Karl
===
"People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging
for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were
always automatically 'right.' Guns ended that, and social democracy is a
hollow farce without an armed populace to make it work."
-- L. Neil Smith