Word: frog
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...warbling Saffer. The cellos, too, seemed not to be standard, modern cellos, but rather like those of Handel's time, having a much thinner, more delicate sound. Most of the strings played their instruments in the baroque style, holding their bows partway up the dowel instead of by the frog, as is the modern method...
...first remember reading about the frogs a year ago. In Minnesota, natives kept discovering frogs in ponds and lakes with developmental abnormalities, from frogs missing limbs to those with eyes growing in their throats. They finally reported this trend to newspapers and some scientists went to work to solve the puzzle. Ironically, the species of frog affected, Xenopus, is frequently used in labs to study the genetics of development, making it even more striking that these frogs, a fairly well-characterized species, have slipped by unnoticed...
While ignoring the new frog problem at this stage is excusable, ignoring global warming is not. We have heard the idea for many years; we know which pollutants create the most damage; and we have a fairly good idea of what steps we could take to alleviate the problem. And so the Union of Concerned Scientists has asked Clinton to bring up the issue at the international conference in Kyoto this December...
...documentary to be broadcast Thursday, Professor Jonathan Slack of the University of Bath in England tells how he manipulated the genes of a frog embryo to suppress growth of the tadpole's head and tail...
...armies, make no wars. All she had was the way she looked and sounded and behaved. No model or actress could hold a candle to her. She was the image every child has of a princess--the one who can feel the pea under the mattresses, who kisses the frog, who lets down her hair from the tower window...