Word: deserts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fourth, and perhaps most importantly, lunch isn't social anyway. Eating lunch in a deserted Quad house isn't social. Eating lunch in a jammed Adams or Lowell House with a bunch of interhouse strangers isn't social. Missing your friends because your classes are at noon and theirs are at 1 p.m. isn't social. Because lunch isn't social, having some students desert it will not appreciably hurt the house system...
...poeticize trees -- he takes a certain pride in not poeticizing anything -- but he does have a fine secular appreciation of what trees do. They hold the earth and scrub the air. Chop them down, and the world becomes a moonscape in a greenhouse. Egypt's eastern desert is a cautionary text: each tree in the sparse landscape is under the protection of a Bedouin family. Sometimes the people build a wall around each tree to guard the leaves from goats...
Debi Lane's nightmare began last November with a routine thyroid test. When she returned for the results the next day, doctors at the Desert Samaritan Hospital in Mesa, Ariz., had chilling news. "There's been a terrible mistake," they told the 41-year-old mother of four. "Basically, we've killed your thyroid...
...featured creatures this time are gigantic earthworms, 30 ft. long, capable of comic-alarming subterranean rapid transit (you just see this furrow moving across the desert at Road Runner speed). When they surface, they reveal trifurcated tongues, each extension ending in a funny-nasty suction cup. In other words, they are great special effects, informed by the mutant-monster tradition of '50s horror movies but satirizing that tradition in a delicate way -- neither condescending nor indulgent...