Word: deserts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Scaring students in the African desert is just one of the many pranks scientists secretly play on one another, contrary to their popular reputation as a serious group of professionals...
Fossil Lode in the Gobi Desert...
...joint expedition of scientists from the American Museum of Natural History and the Mongolian Academy of Sciences unveiled a trove of fossil remains uncovered last summer in the Gobi Desert. Among the scores of fossils are specimens of a turkey-size creature that resembled both dinosaurs and birds. Perhaps even more important was the discovery of 140 skulls of small mammals that lived 80 million years ago. The mammal finds may provide clues to the evolutionary events that allowed mammals to flourish as the dinosaurs disappeared...
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Army has been so busy lately in trouble spots around the world that it has come up with reversible battle fatigues so soldiers can blend in with either desert or woodland settings. One side is sandy brown; the other is traditional camouflage green. The two-in-one uniforms could save the government money. And, says a source, "we won't be embarrassed like we were in the Gulf War, when some of our paratroopers had to jump into the desert in dark green cammies...
...things that flowed from Desert Storm were marvelous," says Bush. "It led to the Madrid meeting on the Middle East, and that led to the handshake on the White House lawn between Arafat and Rabin. And NAFTA was our baby. Clinton, once he got through trying to get by the labor and environmental crowd, worked like hell for it. Give him credit. But it was our deal...