Word: dense
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WE ALL KNOW what Vietnam, the first televised war, looked like; and obviously Stone's designers went to great pains to accurately recreate the environment, from the weapons to the hash dens. But the concern here is not to show what it looked like, but how it felt.
More arrests, more convictions, longer sentences, more seizures of drug dealers' assets. It is possible to string together statistics suggesting that the war on narcotics on the streets of U.S. cities shows promise of being won. What is not possible is to get a single law-enforcement officer to believe...
Emotional ties between man and beast are well documented, although locating the roots of these bonds is a matter of speculation. Cats and dogs, says Serpell, have characteristics compatible with humans. The wolf, a forerunner of today's dog, has strong pack instincts, an attribute that made attachment to early...
Some base houses serve as modern-day opium dens, where addicts not only purchase crack but rent pipes, hang out and get wasted. Most of these establishments are run-down and filthy, littered with ragged furniture, trash and graffiti. Rockheads will sometimes stay for days, spending whatever cash they have...
Around the time of the mass extinction, the fossil site was apparently in a 300-mile-long rift valley fringed with high mountains. The climate swung between wet and dry spells every 20,000 years or so, leaving telltale alternating layers of lake sediments and sandstone visible on the present...