Word: juanita
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BOSTON--Last Tuesday evening, Boston Chief of Health and Human Services Juanita Wade poked her head into a meeting in City Hall and found they weren't speaking the language she is accustomed to hearing in the mayor's sixth-floor offices...
BORN: July 8, 1964, Omaha, Neb. EDUCATION: Colorado State U, B.S., 1986; Arizona State U, J.D., 1989 FAMILY: Wife, Juanita; two children RELIGION: NR MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Lawyer; congressional aide POLITICAL CAREER: None ADDRESS: P.O. Box 17287, Denver...
...JUANITA MILLENDER-MCDONALD (D) District 37 (Southern Los Angeles County; Compton; Carson...
...that's for the priests and philosophers. I don't know, maybe this kid didn't die in vain. See, the Inca are still pretty mysterious. And the girl--they call her Juanita--has plenty to tell the historians. About how the Inca lived. How they dressed. The crazy things they believed in. And all that ice preserved her tissues. If there's any intact DNA, the molecular-biology boys will have a field day. She's important, all right. So important that some Peruvian scientists didn't want to lend her out. Thought traveling to the States might damage...
...humans sacrificed to the mountain god may prove to be a godsend to scientists. Archaeologists and anthropologists are thrilled because Juanita was found at a site that had not been looted; with all the ritual elements in place, they can reconstruct the ceremony and better understand its religious significance. Other experts are more interested in those body fluids. With support from the National Geographic Society, scientists in Arequipa, where the bodies are being kept, are preparing to make a detailed examination of Juanita's blood, her tissues and her DNA to determine, among other things, what virus and germs...