Word: dias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most unmelodic song, like the sound of someone shoveling gravel. But when U.C.L.A. Ornithologist Jared Dia mond crept forward for a closer look, he encountered a bizarre and beautiful spectacle. As he reported at a news conference in Washington, D.C., last week, there in a mile-high rain forest in western New Guinea was a golden-crested male bird about the size of a bluejay . It was standing in front of a remarkable structure of its own making, a 4-ft.-high bower of long sticks and fronds, shaped like a Maypole around a sapling and surrounded by three piles...
...Dia E. Chatty
...fight is by no means over. To win the showdown, Secretary of State Edmund Muskie promised that only half the 39 tons of uranium would be sent to In dia immediately. Before the second half is shipped, he said, "we will consult with Congress" on what India is doing to as sure the U.S. that the fuel will not be used to make bombs...
...Agony and the Ecstasy) steers a safe and steady course through Darwin's life. Cannily, he sticks to the intellectual shallows and piles up the domestic details. It is a stolid, readable job in which the author at tempts to dramatize the excitement of scientific discovery with fictionalized dia logue and lines like "He felt he was on to something . . . important." That he was, but somehow Irving's Origin of Charles does not seem up to Darwin's Origin of Species...