Word: fern
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...Vitus Bering--for whom the Bering Sea and Strait are named--is a morass of Soviet-style apartment blocks and potholed streets, incongruously framed by a mist-swathed harbor and snowcapped volcanoes. Its few hotels and restaurants are drab. Yet we found a certain eccentric charm in menus featuring "fern salad" and "boiled pieces of paste" for breakfast, and "burning mussels with rice" and "cowberry drink" for dinner...
...Fern Leitman, 56, a longtime Florida resident, thought her repeated bouts of pneumonia were just bad luck. Doctors told Suzan King-Carr, 58, of Hobe Sound, Fla., that the spots on her lungs were probably cancer. Ida Mae Williams, 76, of Bogalusa, La., was informed that she had tuberculosis. Three women, three different diagnoses--all of them wrong. After years of ineffectual treatment, each woman learned that she, like thousands of other Americans, had developed a mysterious lung infection that mimics TB, seems to strike thin, white women in particular and can be permanently debilitating. Most unsettling of all, they...
...class also honored Fern Coleman for her work in the Registrar’s Office...
...have found iridium, a mineral plentiful in asteroids, in sediment about 200 million years old--just when the dinosaurs started to take over the planet. Fossilized footprints show that the dinosaurs evolved very rapidly at that time, from the size of dogs to that of dragons. And fossils of fern spores suggest that these opportunistic plants had a sudden ecological opening for colonization...
...from Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and their colleagues have found iridium, a mineral plentiful in asteroids, in sediment about 200 million years old. Fossilized footprints show that the dinosaurs evolved very rapidly at that time, from the size of dogs to that of dragons.And fossils of fern spores suggest that these opportunistic plants also had a sudden ecological opening for colonization...