Word: clays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe (or maybe it was Flannery O'Connor), I have red clay in my veins, and being in Cambridge--so far from the South--makes me lachrymose and weepy. All of us need to be more sensitive, though, if we are to make the South a place worthy of living. Arnetta C. Girardeau...
...where they don't need irrigation water and where the black loam used to stretch like a carpet from horizon to horizon, you top a hill and find the brown claw marks of a monster that has scoured off the land's precious mantle, leaving the gummy, less productive clay showing in streaks. The monster is erosion, brought on by poor farming...
...several occasions I have shot mamba, which are the most poisonous snakes around. The snakes are extremely fast," says Clay Professor of Archaeology Nicolaas J. van der Merwe. He encountered the snakes while surveying a South African game reserve for possible Iron Age vilage sites...
...countless columns across the U.S., and once the split became a fait accompli, gossipists gleefully predicted that ramifications -- from a rowdy settlement battle to the wooing of new partners -- might drag on deliciously for, oh, a decade. The Rockies may tumble, Gibraltar may crumble, they're only made of clay, but gossip is heaven-sent and here to stay...
...reason that Harvard has done so well is that the word is out that Harvard is the place to be as a mathematics undergraduate," said Clay Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Science Arthur M. Jaffe, who is the chair of the department...