Word: brush
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fritschel, a cross country runner, says she faithfully performs the same routine--"sit ups, toe lifts, contacts out, brush and floss, go-to bed-early-because-I-have-to-go-to breakfast-or-my-day-isn't-complete-without-it"--every night...
...open a book, and an ant will be crawling on the page. You'll reach for your coffee mug, and an ant will be exploring the inside. Ants run across your hand as you type. They inch down the mirror as you brush your teeth. They're tiny specks moving across the TV, and little tickles on your ear as you talk on the phone...
Maybe it is my penance to be buzz-bombed by giant flies while trying innocently to brush my teeth. In AP Bio last year, I had to kill thousands of fruit flies all in the name of science. We used to dump them, along with the blue medium they lived in, into this jar of alcohol called the morgue. Their spirits have come back to haunt...
...state, as many feminists have recently, that whether or not Anita Hill's story is true, it is good that she made the charge, smacks of the worst type of sexism possible. Even though some men are pigs, we should not all be tarred with the same brush...
...more." Essential to the task is identifying the dynamic process that shaped each ecosystem and, if need be, putting it back into play. Prairies and bur oak woodlands, for instance, were both created by fire. Without fire, their bright flowers and luxuriant grasses are shaded out by invading brush. Where in centuries past roving bands of Plains Indians set fire to the prairies to flush out game, today preserve managers and teams of volunteers set restored grasslands ablaze...