Word: corks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just as grandparents are symbols of a vivid past, the old cork tree has its own remarkable history...
...trees could talk, the old Amur cork tree at Harvard's Arnold Arboretum might have made it through another New England winter...
...Everybody's heart broke.... Who wants to be on the cork tree when it cracks?" said Karen Funkenstei science teacher at Winsor who was with the students on their annual field trip to the Arboretum...
Dubbed 143-A in its new home, indicating that it was the 143rd tree to join the arboretum, the cork tree was probably one of the very first trees planted on the grounds of the park...
...again, for reasons that are not entirely clear, the bronchioles overreact to the presence of allergens. The walls of the airways clamp down, shutting off the supply of oxygen to the heart, the brain and the rest of the body. "It's as if there were a cork in the bronchial tube," explains Dr. William Busse of the University of Wisconsin Medical School. "Air does not move...