Word: caving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...source of the hubbub is, by and large, an 8' x 10' stone-walled room in the store's basement: Gurdal's cheese cave...
...cave's environment is optimal for the aging of cheese, and at roughly 50 degrees and 98 percent humidity, occurs naturally in many European basement locales. But to recreate that in Cambridge is rather difficult...
...worked his way up from clerk to cheese buyer to his current post of co-owner over the course of 10 years, all the while toying with the idea of the cheese cave...
...clear that Gurdal knows his stuff, and that the cheese cave is his baby--"a labor of love," as he is fond of calling...
...French explorers who recently excavated a frozen 23,000-year-old woolly mammoth in Siberia ? and now wants to clone it. Bernard Buigues, the man who led the project to carve out a 23-ton ice block around the animal and helicopter it 150 miles to an ice cave laboratory, told reporters Wednesday that he hopes to either clone the animal or use its sperm to fertilize the egg of an Asian elephant. No action will be taken until April, Buigues said, at which point a team of scientists will begin to thaw the beast using, um, hair dryers...