Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scenes depicting the quirky nature of North Bath are thoroughly enjoyable. One leaves the theater with the distinct sense of having visited extended family. Only two questions remain. Will Sully ever make more of the life god gave him? And will that Trifecta ever come home...
...concedes that if his store was not housed in the Harvard Lampoon building, it would face the distinct possibility of being sold to a real estate company who might shut it down...
...genetic atlas also sheds new light on the origins of populations that have long mystified anthropologists. Example: the Khoisan of southern Africa (Bushmen and Hottentots). Many scientists consider the Khoisan a distinct race of very ancient origin. The uniqueness of the clicking sounds in their language has persuaded some linguists that the Khoisan are direct descendants of the most primitive human ancestors. But their genes beg to differ. They show that the Khoisan may be a very ancient mix of west Asians and black Africans. A genetic trail visible on the maps shows that the ancestral breeding ground for this...
...Americas, a look at native tribes showed that they were not all blood brothers. The three main groups, classified by language, were found to be genetically distinct, suggesting that three separate populations from Asia may have crossed the Bering Strait at different times to settle in America. The Amerind, who predominate in most of North and South America, possess only type O blood; among the Na-Dene, who cluster in Alaska, Canada and the U.S. Southwest, O prevails but A makes an appearance; in the Alaskan and Canadian Inuit (Eskimo), A, B, AB and O blood groups show the pattern...
...puzzled. What would happen if all of the communities Russia has absorbed over the years were to break away? This is an unsettling thought, and one that is no doubt a large part of Russia's motivation. Chechnya does, however, have a strong claim to independence. It is a distinct community ethnically and religiously. Its desire for independence has been long-standing and is deeply embedded, as the ferocious defense of Grozny, the Chechen capital, indicates...