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...resin. The viscous stuff that eventually turns into amber comes from a variety of ancient trees, mostly conifers, including pines and extinct relatives of sequoias and cedars, but also some deciduous trees. It probably evolved, says Grimaldi, as a defense against wood-boring insects. "As it dripped down the bark," he explains, "it acted like flypaper and encapsulated them, hermetically sealing the trees' wounds at the same time...
When the anti-discriminatory Title IX statute first appeared in 1972, universities across the country viewed it as just another bureaucratic nightmare--a hazy set of restrictions that were all bark and no bite...
With time to improve their prospects, the Doleites are indeed sharpening their pitch. "We'll take Gramm's bark off in Iowa," says Reed, confirming that a series of negative TV spots have been tested before focus groups. One of them, a Dole staff member says, highlights Gramm's 1974 investment of $7,500 in an R-rated movie titled Beauty Queens. (It never actually got made...
Strange as it may seem, Paterno actually entertained--however briefly--the prospect of taking over the University of Miami's scandal-ridden program last year. "There was just enough adventure or something to the idea that it scratched my bark. I thought about it one night, then called and said, 'For crying out loud, I'm not the right...
Yale doesn't just come last alphabetically in the Ivy League. Despite last season's 32-13 thumping of Harvard at the Stadium the Bull-dogs won't have much to bark about this season...