Word: mammothly
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...alone with your thoughts. Hang out with your friends, play frisbee, keep up the dining hall conversation till everyone else has left. It won’t hurt, and will probably only help, your academic performance.” His advice is valuable; don’t let mammoth reading lists prevent you from taking...
...Maverick b) ice cancer c) an arrow d) the Ethiopian army e) prolonged exposure to ice f) mad-mammoth disease...
Scientists are speculating that primitive people alone may have been responsible for the disappearance of more than 100 species of large animals like the woolly mammoth, hunted mainly for food [SCIENCE, June 18]. Stone Age hunters didn't have to use "pointy sticks" to kill the megafauna. They might well have employed the techniques of pre-Columbian hunters in North America who killed large numbers of bison by herding them over cliffs. The Stone Age megafauna may have quite literally been "driven to extinction." JOSEPH J. CARVAJAL Brevard...
...with the folks in Alabama - they already have plenty of drilling platforms out there, as does most of the Gulf coastline stretching west to Texas. And now it's OK with the folks - the Republicans, anyway - in Florida, who are worried about their white sandy beaches and the mammoth tourism industry that grows on them...
...hands of the wrong people, however, it became lethal. For months Calcutta's brokers have been pointing fingers at a Bombay operator named Ketan Parekh, a.k.a. the Big Bull. Parekh is a major-league broker who, starting last September, was taking mammoth positions in several high-profile tech stocks. When his positions topped the maximum allowed by regulators, he allegedly began placing orders through a group of Calcutta operators, including Dinesh Singhania, a local broker widely disliked for his lavish tastes and arrogance. Since most of these orders were financed with gray money, they couldn't be traced back...