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Although studies of ferns began in the time of the Roman Empire, scientists still find the flowerless plant mysterious, and botanists like the Tryons are trying to solve puzzling questions about its highly unusual system of reproduction, its potential applications, and some of its devastating effects all over the globe...
Apple was an apple on a pedestal, two rows of flowerless flowerpots were titled Imagine the Flowers, and Iced Tea was a sizable T made of ice and melting fast. These and about 80 other treasures, executed or inspired by Yoko Ono, made up the show that opened at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, N.Y. The works were officially called "Concept Art," but proud Husband John Lennon, who celebrated his 31st birthday with the show's opening, noted-perhaps revealingly-that "Yoko likes to call her work con art." Over-30 Syracusans mostly refused to be conned...
During the Northern Hemisphere's winter, a summer of a sort comes to the great white continent of Antarctica, bringing 24-hour-a-day sunshine and a brief, spongy softening of the coastal pack ice. That cold and flowerless southern summer is the season when dedicated men arrive by ship or plane to extend man's scanty knowledge-and tenuous possession-of the earth's most inhospitable region...
Last week the voyagers aboard the Atka saw the sun set-it just dipped below the horizon for a few hours-for the first time since they crossed the Antarctic Circle. It was a sign that the brief, flowerless antarctic summer was coming...
...There was little about the dapper, languid Abdul Illah (who likes Bond Street clothes, flowers in his buttonhole and cocker spaniels) to show that he was the son of a desert king, Ali of the Hejaz, who had been pushed from his throne,in 1925 by Arabia's flowerless, buttonless Ibn Saud...