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Word: ethnobotonist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1998-1998
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...alarming rate and with them, the cures for just about any disease imaginable. This is taught to every second grader, and it is one of the main themes in the new IMAX film Amazon. Now playing at the Boston Museum of Science, Amazon follows two medicine men--an American ethnobotonist and a tribal shaman--on their separate quests for new plants and possible medicines, before they are gone. Although it hasn't been as well publicized as Everest, the other IMAX film currently playing at the museum, crowds of a respectable size still venture out into the night...

Author: By Patty Li, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Wet and Wild in the IMAX's 'Amazon' | 10/16/1998 | See Source »

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