Word: extraction
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...passengers. Tourist buses wheezed desperately up the mountain roads. Near the Turkish border, a tall, eagle-faced man strapped 14 members of his family -- including seven children, his wife and his grandmother -- and innumerable pots, kettles, basins and chicken coops to a huge John Deere tractor. As he helped extract the car of a Western journalist mired in a bog, he spat out a complaint: "Why? Why do you Americans allow this to happen? Saddam will kill us all -- men, women and children. Why doesn't Bush do something? Why should all my children...
Humans have found many uses for the shark, aside from putting it on the dinner table. An extract of its cartilage can serve as a temporary skin for burn victims, and shark corneas have been transplanted into human eyes. Because sharks rarely develop tumors, their immune systems are being studied for anticancer agents. In addition, by preying on sick and injured fish, sharks "help keep the ocean healthy," says Manire. Some biologists believe the rise in stingrays off the Florida panhandle may be a by-product of the shark's decline. Thus an ocean without sharks might be a safer...
Ingber, along with Folkman and their associates, sent the corrupted sample to Japan, where chemists grew the fungus in huge 10,000-liter vats in order to extract the potent compound. The Japanese found the active, capillary-suppressing agent to be the rare fungus fumagillin...
...their successes so far, leaders of the Physicians' Health Study are still coming up short on conclusive data about the mysterious vegetable extract beta carotene, composed of a backbone of carbon atoms flanked by two 6-atom carbon "rings...
Despite the unpopularity of his stance on taxes, Silber recognizes that part of government's function must be to "extract money from people," Barrett said. "Silber shows moral courage of a sort I am very unused...