Word: ginkgo
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...place seems amiable enough -- cozily Edwardian, beckoning, a lullaby for the senses. Period photos of adventurers, early editions of Jules Verne and Dorian Gray, a mahogany bar where a fellow serves "smart drinks," heavy on the ginkgo. This is the Explorer's Lounge, the front room of a Virtual World shop in the San Francisco suburb of Walnut Creek. But behind the paneled walls, some pioneering menace is afoot. Five kill-crazy nerdlingers will soon engage in mortal combat, 21st century style, against a tenderfoot with a cunning computer handle: Cyber Rick...
...long career at Harvard, Corey and his students have synthesized some 100 important drugs and natural substances, including the hormone-like prostaglandins used both to treat infertility and to induce abortions. Two years ago, his group synthesized the active substance in a Chinese folk medicine, taken from the ginkgo tree, that is now widely administered as a treatment for asthma and circulation disorders. But he was also honored last week for a broader intellectual achievement: pioneering "retrosynthetic analysis," an approach to building molecules that Roald Hoffmann, a Nobel- winning chemist himself, likens to a chess game with nature...
With the names of trees you can make a fine pagan bouquet of words: hornbeam, ginkgo, quickbeam, oak, white willow, tamarind, Lombardy poplar, false cypress, elder, laburnum, larch, baobab, black gum, rowan, hazel, whitebeam, tree of heaven...
...trunks, now and then attack the bark, but they are merely scolded with affection. Earlier this year a pair of mallards dropped in on the grounds and got amorous in the swimming pool. Then some wood ducks decided to raise their young ones in the crotch of a huge ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba) down on the South Lawn, led them to frolic in the fountain, then sent them off to the wilds with a quack...
Just as rudely, a Japanese novel interrupts. An innocent student literally trips into the lustful arms of the mother of his beloved. Crouched behind separate panels, the daughter and her father watch silently as the passion progresses-while ever so symbolically the ginkgo leaves fall in the garden. By avoiding eye contact with everybody, including the mother, the sensitive young man saves face all around...