Word: wildness
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...Texan. I’m from the Wild West, let there be no mistake about...
...seriously; politicians do not take them seriously because they vote in such low numbers. This endless cycle goes around and around, but unlike the curse of the Bambino, this curse can be broken. The baseball season is over, the political season has just begun, and young voters are the Wild Card of the 2004 presidential election: will this be the year they turn their reputation around...
...biggest mystery of all, which is where and when the Eurasian grapevine--the species from which 99% of the world's wine is derived--was first taken under cultivation. For unlike the ancient ancestor of modern corn, which has been traced to a valley in southern Mexico, the wild Eurasian grapevine grows across a broad geographic range. It is therefore possible, though McGovern thinks unlikely, that it was domesticated by several cultures independently. What will eventually help resolve the question, McGovern says, are ancient snippets of DNA from wine residues and shriveled raisins that have been excavated from archaeological sites...
...attractive target for domestication by our Stone Age ancestors. As food, they are densely packed with sugar and valuable for that reason alone. But in addition, McGovern thinks, ancient people were probably well aware of the fermentation process whereby yeast turns the sugar in grape juice into alcohol. Indeed, wild grapes frequently carry a dusting of yeast on their skins, probably transported by wasps and other flying insects, and will occasionally ferment right on the vine (birds sometimes become so inebriated eating wild grapes that they fall from their perches...
...kind of like a colt,” Murphy said. “He’s kind of wild sometimes and he’s going to make some mistakes, but all of a sudden he just does that...