Word: cake
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Starting out early one recent morning in Hell Creek, Horner points to a black line in the layer cake of geologic deposits. "That's the Tertiary- Cretaceous boundary," he advises a newcomer. "There's nothing above there but a lot of old mammals. Gives dinosaur people nosebleeds to go up that high." Farther down, at the tyrannosaurus site, his crew of graduate students and preparators are already chinking and clanging into the sandstone with jackhammers, pickaxes, shovels, chisels and ice picks. The workers are at it from 7:30 to 4:30, six days a week, with a fine gray...
Mother-driven families (none of the "fathers said more than a few sentences a day to their children") live lives as similar as their houses. They all bake the same coconut cake, hang out laundry on the same day of the week and order dinette sets with laminated tops that look like wood but sponge off easily. Loving her children is not enough. To fit in, Nora would have to keep them up, along with the lawn, live a life as ordered as the ones around her and, most important, get a husband...
...fact that the flyer is tacked all over the Square puts the icing on the cake of this little scheme. Does Harvard Square have a monopoly on healthy males? Unlikely. Does it have a monopoly on college students desperate to earn money? Probably...
...that pizazz, however, is only frosting on the cake for Houston. The city is in the third year of a brisk economic recovery that is transforming the fourth largest U.S. city (pop. 1.7 million) from a freewheeling oil-and-gas town to a more broadly based cosmopolitan center. Energy still constitutes 60% of the economy, but that is down from 83% in 1981. Boasts Mayor Kathy Whitmire: "We are no longer a one-industry town...
...some major train stations are open evenings and Sundays, and increasingly, gas stations have tacked on convenience stores. Restaurants can do business, although some restaurateurs, charmingly, take Saturday night off. Two other exceptions: pastry shops and florists are allowed to stay open on Sundays. You can always eat cake. Or maybe flowers...