Word: giant
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After the service, mourners wrote their thoughts in two empty books and signed a giant quilt plastered with the names Umaer and Scott...
Carson died of cancer less than two years later, at 57, but Silent Spring uncapped a wellspring of fears about the effects of heedless industrialization that still flows. A testament to her posthumous victory is the fact that the giant Monsanto Corp., which led the chemical industry's attempts to discredit her in 1962, today integrates environmental concerns into its strategic planning...
P.L.A.Y. CORPS, a sports program sponsored by sneaker giant Nike, Inc. tabled at the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) yesterday looking for volunteers to coach inner-city youth...
...Reeves Gabrels provided perhaps the biggest laughs of the night when, in the middle of a particularly incendiary version of the faux-disco rocker "Stay," he reached over to the nearby Bowie and casually licked his ear. The elegant, artistic stage design also proved interesting-a set of three giant eggs at times served as warped projection screens for videos of faces and flashing colors. The drapes behind the scene doubled as backdrops for clips ranging in content from run-of-the-mill computer graphics...
...Giant pharmaceutical firms have long prospected the rain forests, screening randomly selected plants for potential products. But under Conte's direction, Shaman became one of the first companies to rely on the ancestral wisdom of native cultures. "It was a light bulb," Conte says. "Why not leverage out this knowledge of how plants have been used for thousands of years to get something that's more likely to be effective and safe...