Word: digging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MOST HOMEOWNERS WOULD READILY AGREE THAT the only good termite is a dead termite, but the one unearthed on a dig in the Dominican Republic was better than most. The insect, trapped between 25 million and 30 million years ago in a blob of tree sap that hardened into amber, has yielded genetic material that is the oldest ever studied, by at least 8 million years. It has also resolved a long-simmering dispute over the family tree of cockroaches...
...Crimson may need to dig trenches in the middle of Cumnock Field in order to slow down the blazing Quaker offense...
After returning from a dig in Sardis, Turkey, he published a book on coin collecting, A Byzantine Coin Collection...
...style doesn't just dabble with abstracted misery; it takes us to higher planes of confusion about the vulgarities of life. Try these crowd-pleasing verses out at your next party: "I have never felt such frustration/ Or lack of self control/ I want you to kill me/ And dig me under, I want to live no more...
...white supremacist Byron de la Beckwith was charged with the 1963 murder of Evers outside his Jackson, Mississippi, home, two juries deadlocked, and Beckwith, who denies the charge, went free. Last year prosecutors reopened the case, but the original autopsy report was missing. So Baden was called in to dig up the surprisingly well-preserved body and do another autopsy. If Beckwith is retried, Baden will probably testify, and a conviction could lead to the reopening of other unsolved cases. "There's no statute of limitations on murder," Baden explains. "The Evers case shows that after 29 years...