Word: liquid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...marine food chain, immunologists and physiologists are attempting to understand the animals' biochemistry. The idea that sharks can actually be beneficial to human health was established decades ago: vitamin A came primarily from shark-liver oil until 1947, when it was first synthesized in the laboratory. The unctuous liquid is also, for reasons still unknown, highly effective in shrinking human hemorrhoids...
...that will orbit the Jovian moon at an altitude of 60 miles--about the same distance at which Apollo spacecraft used to orbit Earth's moon--photographing its surface and taking radar soundings to look for water beneath its crust. If the radar picks up the telltale echoes of liquid, another spacecraft would be sent to land on Europa. Once there it would release a small cylindrical probe with a heated tip that would melt through the ice layer and propel itself through the frigid ocean, looking for signs of life...
...Nobel in 1992, finds the 67-year-old wanderer sitting on the veranda in the last indigo hour of the day, "watching the hills die" and imagining a world where he will exist no more. All the master's gifts are prodigally displayed here: an ear that finds liquid music in "fast water quarrelling over clear stones," a wit that sees death--the state of wordlessness--as "beyond declension," and an attentiveness that not only observes squirrels "spring up like questions" but also, 20 pages later, amplifies and complicates the image as "squirrels abound and repeat themselves like questions...
...voice emerges from the mix with bruised passion. Other songs, like African Sunset, draw deftly on the upbeat music of South Africa's townships. But the best song is Daulne's seductive cover of Phoebe Snow's Poetry Man; that song, like much of this fine CD, has the liquid groove of hip-hop and the broken heart of a great torch song...
...Book (Random House, $25). At 49, Love, a vocal and controversial critic of hormone-replacement therapy, has entered perimenopause. To cope, she exercises daily, adds phytoestrogen-rich foods like soybeans and flaxseed to her diet and doses herself with black cohosh, an herbal source of phytoestrogens that comes in liquid or tablet form...