Word: barkely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Smith entered the store, protesters continued to bark into a bullhorn. Several flagged down passing motorists to hand out flyers...
...Guam 27 years after World War II ended; of heart failure; in Nagoya. When leaflets drifted down from U.S. planes announcing the war's end, Yokoi suspected foul play on the part of the Allies. Counting the years by the cycles of the moon and crafting clothing from tree-bark fibers, Yokoi honored his pledge never to surrender. Two hunters who stumbled upon him in 1972 passed on the news of Japan's defeat...
...Weber might have guessed, there's a downside to the Harvard bureaucracy's new building. In their quest to create a museum piece campus, our favorite University administration forgot to make a place to park your bike. They put in one rack, but on Thursday afternoons when 'The Bark' turns into section central, you need more room than that. And to make matters worse, friendly Harvard bureaucrats are turning the bike battle into an moral match. Leave your bike locked any place but the over-flowing rack and you get a note siting some state code and imploring...
...that can trigger human diseases, then expose those enzymes to a plant's chemical compounds. If a plant extract blocks the action of a particular enzyme--say, one that promotes a skin inflammation--they know the plant has drug potential. By extracting specific chemicals from the leaves, roots or bark with a series of solvents and testing each sample individually, scientists can determine which of the plant's thousands of compounds actually blocks the enzyme...
...research provides a far more streamlined way of locating plants that have medical potential. "Indigenous people have been testing plants on people for thousands of years," says Cox. More important, healers may alert ethnobotanists to nuances that random collecting could miss. Take Homalanthus nutans, a rain-forest tree whose bark Samoans have used for centuries as a cure for hepatitis. Cox quickly found that he could not just casually go into the forest and gather the bark because 1) there are two varieties of the tree, and the bark of only one is effective, and 2) only trees...