Word: tree
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sure enough, Grant soon is choppering down on an island off Costa Rica. He notices a tree trunk, graceful and limbless, rising 50 ft. above the surrounding vegetation. It turns and looks at him. Yes, a dinosaur. An entire island crawling and stomping with them, in fact, intended to be the world's most exciting theme park, as soon as a few flaws are worked...
...young man, fearing that his love of photographing birds was unsuitable for a career, Porter earned an M.D. at the Harvard Medical School and taught biochemistry for 10 years. He quit teaching in 1939 to produce such works as The Flow of Wildness, about the Galapagos Islands; The Tree Where Man Was Born, which explored Africa; and Antarctica. His 1972 book Birds of North America is regarded as a classic...
...felt excruciating pain. She sliced off my clitoris and now it lay in her gnarled hands. She then sliced my inner lips until there was nothing left. There was blood everywhere, but by now I felt no more pain, not even when she stuck a thorn from the acacia tree into me to keep the wound closed...
...There was a young man seen climbing down a tree beside the building," said Morse. "But it appears there is more than one thief [involved]." He said no detailed description of the young man was available...
...long career at Harvard, Corey and his students have synthesized some 100 important drugs and natural substances, including the hormone-like prostaglandins used both to treat infertility and to induce abortions. Two years ago, his group synthesized the active substance in a Chinese folk medicine, taken from the ginkgo tree, that is now widely administered as a treatment for asthma and circulation disorders. But he was also honored last week for a broader intellectual achievement: pioneering "retrosynthetic analysis," an approach to building molecules that Roald Hoffmann, a Nobel- winning chemist himself, likens to a chess game with nature...