Word: hollowing
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...sons of Mars, the Roman god of war) could finally put to rest the imaginative theory of Soviet Astrophysicist I.S. Shklovskii. In an attempt to explain certain peculiarities-now attributed to misinterpretation of data-in the orbit of Phobos. Shklovskii suggested in 1959 that the moonlet might be hollow, possibly a satellite lofted by some long-vanished civilization...
Like men, she quickly discovered, chimpanzees are technological animals. They chew leaves to make sponges, which they use to sop water out of hollow branches. They also strip grass stems to make long probes, which they use to fish tasty termites out of their mounds. Jane also found out that chimps, long considered vegetarians, also eat meat. Like primitive humans, they form hunting parties and carry out fairly intricate plans to capture young bush pigs, monkeys, baboons-and even, she reports, human babies...
...think the statement by an old friend of the Nixon family to the effect that, as a boy. Nixon worked eighteen hours a day and thus could never come to feel any sympathy for his fellow countrymen who work only eight, comes closest to the truth. A truly hollow man, Nixon is one who is simply driven. His presidency becomes his chance to wreak vegeance on a country that infused him ineradicably with its prevailing brand of spiritual emptiness...
...between the two; Alec threatens blackmail, and Maurice is afraid to meet again. But a crisis between them turns into a mutual confession of love, and as the novel ends, they are planning to live together. Alec having given up a future in America and Maurice surrendering pretensions to hollow respectability...
Complex Preparation. The operation itself is relatively easy. Patients report to the hospital in the morning to donate their own bone marrow. Under local anesthesia the marrow is taken from the hip through a hollow needle. Later the same day they go to the dentist's office, where the marrow is implanted. The procedure, which involves laying back the gum and cleaning the lesion around the tooth before filling it with bone marrow, rarely takes more than half an hour...