Word: flora
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Walter B. Hewlett '66, a director of the Hewlett-Packard Company and chair of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, noted that universities are largely under-funded...
...narrow sliver of biodiversity. Throughout history, people have cultivated or gathered 7,000 plant species for food. Today only 20 species provide 90% of the world's food and three--maize, wheat and rice--supply more than half. Tens of thousands of species of the world's still surviving flora can be bred or provide genes to increase production in deserts, saline flats and other marginal habitats...
This special-effects extravaganza is art, but is it science? The makers worked closely with paleontologists, choosing filming sites that matched dino-age flora and researching how specific species would have moved. Still, some experts have criticized Walking for presenting educated guesses as fact; there's limited evidence, for instance, about the social, mating and territorial habits it depicts. "We have found a few great fossils that give us a sense of behavior, but it's very little," says Mark Norell, chairman of paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History. "This stuff is just as fake as Jurassic Park...
...Louisville Bluegrass? Hmm, not much precedent for flora...
...Flora Tartakovsky