Word: clusters
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Nestled on Albany St. at the edge of the square, a set of red brick buildings marks the beginning of the new Cambridge, a cluster of high-tech firms with names like BASF Bioresearch, Transkaryotic Therapies, and Kurzweil. But next door to the MIT plasma fusion center, at 240 Albany St., lies a complex of two trailers that seems oddly misplaced in this new industrial mecca...
Such parenting behavior is unknown in modern reptiles and had been unsuspected in dinosaurs, leading Horner to name this new genus Maiasaura, or "good mother" dinosaurs. Later he found a cluster of such nests, separated from one another by about 25 ft., the length of an adult maiasaur. He argued that they dated from a single breeding season 80 million years ago and that dinosaurs returned to this breeding ground yearly, like migratory birds...
...radar. Or the trash fires that start spontaneously from time to time near the radio and TV broadcast antennas in downtown Honolulu. Or the pristine suburb of Vernon, N.J., that has both one of the world's highest concentrations of satellite transmitting stations and a persistent -- and unexplained -- cluster of Down's syndrome cases...
...coverage of the landmark studies linking low-level electromagnetic fields to the increased incidence of miscarriage, birth defects and various forms of cancer, especially brain tumors and leukemia. In the July 9 issue of the New Yorker, Brodeur returned to the subject with a detailed story about a cancer cluster in Guilford, Conn. Over a period of 20 years, four residents of a street with nine homes on it developed brain tumors, and most of their neighbors suffered recurring headaches. The common denominator: they all lived near an electrical substation and transmission lines owned by Connecticut Light & Power...
Citizens in a cluster of border towns are already uniting the two Germanys through efforts both large and small. -- Though Gorbachev wants to keep his title as party chief, he aims to strengthen the presidency. -- South African President de Klerk announces that Mandela can go free. But when? -- Traffic jams and pilfered caviar in Bucharest...