11.   Medicine men had blessed the flag with corn pollen.

12.   Researchers, including the authors, said it is still unknown how much of an impact Bt corn pollen is having on wild monarch populations.

13.   Sending the tribal flag bearing corn pollen into space could signal these evil spirits that the Navajos want them back, the traditionalists said.

14.   She pulled out her pouch of corn pollen, a medium of prayer in Navajo religion, and prayed to the east, south, west and north.

15.   The men vanished seconds later, leaving only footprints and a sprinkling of corn pollen, which traditional Navajos scatter during prayer.

16.   The researchers fed monarch caterpillars leaves of milkweed, their only food, which had been dusted with Bt corn pollen, regular corn pollen or no pollen.

17.   Twenty percent of the caterpillars eating leaves bearing genetically engineered pollen died, while all caterpillars eating leaves with regular corn pollen survived.

18.   To this day, many Navajos carry corn pollen when they drive in case they encounter a coyote crossing the highway in a northern direction.

19.   Two years later, Cornell University researchers observe monarch butterflies dying from corn pollen with killer genes spread onto wild milkweed.

20.   At that point, they began to eat and gain weight more slowly than larvae that ate corn pollen that was not genetically altered.