Word: barrenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...backpacker, the High Sierra is a state of mind. Cleanswept, devoid of trees, the region contains the range's highest peaks. It would almost seem barren were it not for the glacier basins with their high tundra meadows, tiny wildflowers, deep blue lakes, and foaming cascades...
Reported by Laurence I. Barren and Neil MacNeil/ Washington...
...Yamal Peninsula is a barren stretch of perpetually frozen soil that extends like an icy finger from Western Siberia about 400 miles toward the Arctic Ocean. Temperatures fall to -60° C during the nine-month-long winter, and the only inhabitants are a few Russians and Mongolian reindeer herders. During Stalin's reign of terror, the Soviet Gulag penetrated the region. Beneath tundra and scrub forests lie the world's largest untapped, proven reserves of natural gas, estimated to total 26 trillion cubic meters...
Although conceiving babies in test tubes may slightly increase the chances of birth defects, the technique "may be a useful last resort for barren women," John D. Biggers, professor of Physiology, said last week...
Third World students for the time being are expressing cautious optimism publicly, but privately some admit that they face a dilemma. They view the proposal as a concession and with respect to Harvard's rhetoric-filled but action-barren history they are right. But they also realize that any criticism of the report may undermine their own interests...