Word: flavors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they would welcome paying "Earth patriots" eager to spend a week or two on scholarly expeditions in remote places. At first Earthwatch concentrated on the physical sciences, such as the study of volcanoes and eclipses, but as public interest grew in things natural, the organization acquired a strong environmental flavor. This year more than 3,000 EarthCorps volunteers will head off on 111 different projects around the world, taking molds of baboon teeth in Ethiopia, protecting endangered sea- turtle eggs in the Caribbean and monitoring volcanoes...
...same actor, incidentally, accused me of poor writing. Good critics, he said his friends told him, evoke the flavor of the performances, whereas I had conveyed nothing. He ought to have thanked me--this was deliberate. Some people don't appreciate a favor...
...faithful who spent their days selling bonds and their nights at the juice bar, the holy water was Perrier, a drink with the flavor of old rocks and the price of cheap perfume. Shielded from the light in its distinctive green bowling-pin bottles, Perrier was the drink of choice of a whole generation that was equally suspicious of whisky and Pepsi. But those who are busy toasting the beginning of a new decade may have to return to Scotch or soda -- at least for a while...
...Five ounces," says her husband. "Fiftycalories." He gazes up at the wall, where neatlyclipped pictures of mangos, macaroons, and pralinepie frame the flavor list...