Word: cycad
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...once at least 50 times as common as in the continental U.S. Last year Peter Spencer, a neurotoxicologist at New York City's Albert Einstein College of Medicine, offered a solution to the mystery of the Guamanian cases when he traced them to a toxin found in cycad seeds, which the natives used to eat in times of famine. The toxin specifically affects nerve cells, says Spencer, and "exposure may occur decades before the actual onset of the disease...
...dinosaurs. The only complete specimens dug at the monument are reassembled in Carnegie Museum at Pittsburgh and in American Museum of Natural History, Manhattan, the University of Utah and the National Museum, Washington. For a look at terrible lizards in a national park, tourists can go to Fossil Cycad National Monument in South Dakota, where WPA has built a few poor imitations out of concrete...
...town (no telephone) , rushed into his best suit, to Memorial Hall, and into a seat next to the Prince (at the Prince's insistence). The conversation presented pretty tough going for the local elite and even for the President and Fellows, for it dealt almost exclusively with fossil cycads (in which the Prince, like Dr. Wieland, had an ardent interest). The guests could hardly wait for the end of the luncheon and the end of boredom to edge closer to the Royal Presence. But no - when it was over the Prince suggested visiting Dr. Wieland's office. This...
...outstanding granite mountain whose top Sculptor Gutzon Borglum is blasting into the shape of Washington's, Jefferson's, Lincoln's and Roosevelt's heads, the Wind Cave National Monument whose ten underground square miles have never been well explored, and the Fossil Cycad National Monument whose 360 acres preserve trees petrified 120,000,000 years...
...great good friend of the late Andrew Carnegie whom he resembles,* Professor Wieland last week retorted warmly in the columns of Science that Fossil Cycad National Monument "has no more to do with speleology [cave lore] than the snowcap of Kilimanjaro. It must have been an oversight on the part of nature to put so much scientific clarity and loveliness only 22 miles from a cavern in a gulch and now surrounded by a sort of caravansary. That is not what the student of evolution exactly wishes to see first. . . . Will the 'public' be as dumb tomorrow...