Word: canyoneering
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Carby, addressing more than 70 gathered at Emerson Hall in the last of the three W.E.B. Dullois Lectures, drew on Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and the recent Lawrence Kasdan film "Grand Canyon" as examples of works by whites intended to preserve their social position, not to promote true racial equality...
VACATIONERS SEEKING peace and quiet might want to consider a survey of the favorite destinations of 5,000 Harley-Davidson motorcycle owners, taken by an owners' group. The top picks in order: the Black Hills and the national parks of Yellowstone, Great Smoky Mountains, Grand Canyon, Glacier and Rocky Mountain...
...bodies down by their feet and hands. The skull of one of them burst as it hit the rock, and his brain splattered my shirt. I was lying on my back and could see what they were doing up there. I watched them sling the bodies into the canyon; it all took about an hour...
...result of a single stroke of inspiration from one editor; the idea grew over a year from more modest proposals by several staff members. And then, over the past six months, it was prepared under the direction of editors Edward Jamieson and Stephen Koepp. Vacationing in the Grand Canyon's timeless beauty soon after he began the project, Koepp felt inspired to think about the millennium. "We decided to do this issue now because the '90s are really the advent season of the new millennium. In the relative scale of things, it's just a few minutes before midnight...
Furthest along of the new adhesion drugs is an "artificial matrix" designed to promote wound healing. Normally, a wound site looks like the Grand Canyon to arriving rescue cells. But this biodegradable gel, produced by Telios Pharmaceuticals, is peppered with synthesized CAM molecules so that cells arriving at a wound site will have plenty of places to get a grip. With the new gel filling in the gap, repairing wounds, including severe burns or skin ulcers, takes 30% less time and leaves less of a scar, claims company scientific director Michael Pierschbacher...