Word: fern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...State Department reacted angrily. The U.S., it said, "can find no reasonable basis" for the court's decision. "We do not consider the matter closed." Meanwhile, the violence goes on: the mutilated body of the Rev. Ernesto Fernández Espino, 37, a leader of El Salvador's Lutheran Church, was found last week in a village near San Miguel...
...pair also leads their Biology 247 class on an annual "class trip" to Mexico to give aspiring botanists hands-on experience with some of the tropical fern species...
While Rolla Tryon is the professor. Alice has not been content to play second fiddle. Aside from her pioneer work in fern-spore research, she has set precedents-initially by becoming the first woman member of New England's foremost association of botanists-the New England Botanists Club, then by becoming, in 1978, its first woman president...
...1960s, she was a leader in the drive to incorporate modern techniques in Harvard's biological studies, playing a key role in the University's acquisition of its first scanning electron microscope. The microscope has revolutionized several areas of study, including fern research...
Eventually, a German bookseller unveiled the "seed mystery" when he discovered that the fern reproduces by means of a tiny, asexually generated spore which falls to the ground and then sprouts...