Word: molar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some experience before a charter firm will send him tacking off through the coral with $45,000 worth of boat under him. Anyone who knows the difference between windward and leeward but not between a boom vang and an outhaul feels apprehensive. There you will be, stuck on some molar of rock, the dummy of the Windward Islands. But to bridge the gap between the fumbling amateur and the moderately competent seaman, C.S.Y. has its "sail-'n'-learn" program. An instructor is put on board: a local sailor from St. Vincent or its neighboring island Bequia (pronounced, with...
...pachyderms prime targets for poachers eager to supply a financially stable product used for curio carving, electronic insulators and piano keys. The demand is so great that recently the price of ivory has gone from $14 to $72 a kilo-even elephant teeth today bring $21 a molar. As a result, poaching elephants for their tusks and teeth has become more lucrative than ever. Game officials estimate that in the next 18 months 10% of Kenya's more than 70,000 elephants will be killed by ivory hunters. Many of the victims will be young females because their ivory...
Arnold D. Lewis, head of the preparation laboratory of Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology, found the jaw bone and molar during an expedition to Lake Rudolph in Northern Kenya in 1967. The find was not announced until yesterday because extensive research was needed to determine the age of the fossil...