Word: thousander
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This is not to say the Maldives have remained the same over time. Twenty thousand years ago, at the height of the last Ice Age, says Abdulla Naseer, director of the Marine Research Center in Malé, the Maldives were not the low-lying coral islands we see today. Due to frigid ocean temperatures and vast amounts of water locked up as ice, sea levels were some 400 ft. lower then, and the reef crests loomed above the sea's surface as sheer-sided limestone pinnacles. Then, as the earth warmed and the ice melted, the rising ocean overtopped these pinnacles...
Immortalized on jukeboxes in a thousand honky-tonks, California's Folsom Prison is one of the U.S.'s best-known penitentiaries, and one of its worst. Hewn from local granite at the base of the Sierra foothills northeast of Sacramento, Folsom dates back to the 1880s and for decades has been a squalid, antiquated mess. But its problems have become acute in the past ten years, as its population has swelled to 70% more than capacity and the rate of violent acts nearly tripled. This year three inmates have been killed and 130 others stabbed in unmanageable violence that...
...mission began early in July, when small groups of Afghan resistance fighters infiltrated into the hills above the Soviet military air base a few miles outside Kabul. Last week more than a thousand rebel troops swooped down in a daring raid that raged for eight hours. The attack, the heaviest since Soviet troops marched into Afghanistan six years ago, was a response to the increased numbers of soldiers and supplies, including more than 80 powerful Mi-24 helicopter gunships, that have been flowing into the base over the past two months. Said one leader of the guerrillas who are known...
...factory is extraordinarily efficient. Research conducted by Harvard's Haseltine and published in the July issue of the journal Cell reveals that the virus has a unique genetic component that allows it to reproduce itself a thousand times as fast as any other kind of virus. The mechanism for this reproduction "is one of the biggest effects I've seen in biology," says Haseltine. "It helps explain why AIDS is such a devastating disease and why it can spread so fast." In the process of rampant replication, the AIDS virus destroys its home, the T cell. Thus...
...greens often live in close association with people and frequently bite them. How the disease might have traveled from Africa to the U.S. and Haiti is anybody's guess. One "intriguing" clue, says Dr. Peter Piot of the Institute for Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium, is that several thousand Haitians lived in Kinshasa, Zaïre, from the early 1960s to the mid-'70s, and most of them, he says, have since moved to North America and Europe. As another researcher put it, the virus "didn't just fall...