Word: larval
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...published in Nature, Cornell entomologist John Losey and his colleagues reported that pollen from corn made pest-resistant by the addition of bacterial genes could spell trouble for monarchs. In his experiments, Losey scattered pollen from the genetically modified corn onto milkweed--the butterfly's only food during its larval or caterpillar stage--and watched what happened with alarm. Most of the caterpillars that ate these leaves either died or were stunted...
...gravity, goes downward--seem more interesting than the third. That's not the art's fault, but it goes a long way toward fixing the imbalance in Americans' views of their own past art--a bias summarized in the silly idea that American modernism was creeping around in larval form until after World War II, when Pollock, de Kooning et al. spread their redeeming wings...
...Teaching fellows." Who are they really? Through a rigorous study of TFs in at least 25 Core classes, I and my colleagues at the Institute for the Study of Teaching Fellows and Prokaryotic Life have conclusively determined several facts about the life cycle of the common TF. In the larval stage, young TFs-to-be squirm through high schools nationwide, leaving oozing trails of teacher recommendations and bibliographic references in their wakes. Pupating during their undergraduate years, many emerge from their pre-university cocoons as some version of that smarmy first-year in your section who always does the reading...
There are countless breeds of TFs, and many (including mine, of course) manage to rise above their larval roots to become great instructors and, hopefully someday, great professors. But others, through either intense training or abnormal mutation, distort into a subspecies taxonomically known as Bad TF-hood--that is, one to look out for after handing in that paper. Because Bad TF-hood is a highly developed and cultivated state requiring great tenacity to achieve, we at the Institute have developed the following manual, originally published in the New England Journal of Semiotic Hermeneutics of Lower Academic Ecosystems, designed...
...Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Marcel Breuer, Walter Gropius, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy--moved to America, where their example and teaching changed its architecture, making New York City and Chicago the epicenters of the postwar International Style. And the academic study of art history in America, which had been fairly larval before the 1930s, was transformed by German-Jewish and Austrian-Jewish refugees like Erwin Panofsky and Richard Krautheimer--despite the endemic anti-Semitism of many American universities...