Word: giffin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard has needed a student center like this for a long time, said Daniel B. Giffin...
...been waiting for something like this for a while," Giffin said. "It seemed like the thing that we lacked. It's bigger than I expected...
Dinosaur bones also hold clues to parts of the body that have disintegrated over the eons. By assessing the relationship in living animals between the vertebrae and the delicate nerves they protect, Emily Giffin, a paleontologist at Wellesley College, attempts to make inferences about the neuroanatomy of dinosaurs. Vertebrae are especially revealing because the canal running through them varies in size according to the number of nerve fibers it contains, and that in turn depends on how much the muscles controlled by these nerves are used. Giffin is trying to determine whether theropods -- the dinosaurian suborder that includes fierce predators...
...Winning doesn't mean anything," saidNottingham resident Robert Giffin, 54, from hisaisle seat at the Manchester conference, "becausenothing will changes...