Word: giant
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Alpine skiing consists of slalom and giant slalom races, which are the same for both men and women. Despite sporadic practices due to a lot of rain and little snow, the team did its best to compensate by getting to the carnivals early and getting good training spots...
Haber was "a giant in the field of cardiovascular medicine," said Arthur M. Lee, associate professor of biological sciences at SPH. His death was "a huge loss to heart research," he added...
With its forest of steel masts, miles of cable rigging and giant, sail-shaped glass roof, the new aquarium that opened in Lisbon last week looks like a futuristic ship preparing for exploration. That's as it should be: The aquarium, the largest in Europe, is the centerpiece of Expo '98, a world's fair dedicated to "The Oceans" and timed to celebrate Vasco da Gama's historic voyage from Lisbon to India--via the Cape of Good Hope--500 years ago. But Lisbon's newest tourist attraction is also a symbol of a growing public interest in underwater zoos...
...coastal exhibits that represent four major littoral ecologies: rocky North Atlantic cliffs with cavorting razorbills and murres; subpolar grassy banks populated by nesting Magellanic penguins; Pacific-coast pools with a kelp forest, frolicking sea otters and flying oyster catchers; and an Indian Ocean coral reef with pygmy angelfish and giant clams...
GODZILLA A giant mutated lizard? O.K. That the hero of an action movie is French? Sorry--too big a reach...