Word: lode
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After working for years on finding such a drug, Ingber had uncovered a mother lode--but there was a catch. Fed to rats, large enough doses of fumagillin proved capable of suppressing tumors, but at the same time also caused severe weight loss...
...construction company before August and is now living with his family in Cairo. "Before we are a nation, we are a business. The nationality records we recovered can tell us who was a real resident of Kuwait and who was not, and that is obviously important. But the real lode was the nation's financial and banking records." All told, about 85% of that material was smuggled out, and the rest was reconstructed by late October. So Kuwait, or at least Kuwait Inc., is offshore now -- an economy in exile...
...home to several hundred Eskimos, grizzlies, musk-oxen, wolves, migratory birds and a herd of 180,000 caribou, whose majestic spring migration has inspired naturalists to call the preserve "America's Serengeti." But to oilmen and Alaska politicians, the refuge's 1.5 million- acre coastal plain is a potential lode of black gold...