Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...state mascot, fed by tourists and fussed over by residents -- until last week, when a ten-foot bull gator lurched out of a lake near Sarasota and dragged off four-year-old Erin Glover. When law-enforcement officers caught up with the creature six hours later, they found the dead girl still clamped in its jaws...
...garden," wrote the great rosarian Samuel Reynolds Hole in 1869, "must have beautiful roses in his heart." To wait as long as three years for trilliums to bloom requires considerable fortitude; to rise early and weed builds discipline; to construct a garden in one's mind in the dead of winter fosters purity of thought. "Sometimes what you do is for others," muses Designer Oscar de la Renta, who has transformed a Connecticut horse farm into a hilltop garden of crab-apple trees and white roses, with rows of fruit trees and swaths of delphiniums. "You may plant something...
...little less thought, less work, and they would only be lumps. Tucker had taken a long look at Rodin, and it shows everywhere on his bronzes. The heavings and incrustations of their skins are, in fact, exquisitely organized to carry the eye around the form and leave no dead or slick patches on the surface. Groping, malleability, squeezing, thumbing bespeak a flat-out commitment to the tactile...
Every spring, residents of the tiny Danish island of Anholt, midway between Denmark and Sweden, eagerly await the arrival of the harbor seals that breed on the island's sandy beaches. This year, however, they have been witnesses to a mysterious season of death. So far, more than 150 dead and dying seals and their prematurely born pups have washed ashore; in the past few weeks, Lighthouse Keeper Einar Boisen and others have been picking up as many as 17 dead seals a day. Says Boisen: "We've started calling ourselves the death patrol...
...adults and pups in Denmark and an additional 50 in West Germany, out of a total population of 10,000 to 15,000 in the region. Many scientists strongly suspect that acute pollution of the North Sea is a major culprit. Says West German Zoologist Gunter Heidemann: "The dead seals we've found have shown high concentrations of heavy metals and chlorinated hydrocarbons...