Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...animals trapped in Russell Lake are almost certainly doomed. Freshwater from the mountain streams sits atop the denser salt water, with little mixing. As a result, oxygen, which is replenished at the surface through diffusion, cannot be replaced once it is depleted from the salt water. Fish and crabs might last for a year, but the air-breathing sea mammals that eat them will not. "The seals are exhausted from diving through that extra 50 ft. of freshwater before they can reach salt water and maybe find something to eat," says Marine Biologist Tamra Faris of the National Marine Fisheries...
...Lives Alone in the Forest." Her real name was Dian Fossey, and she was a onetime occupational therapist from Louisville. For most of the past 18 years Fossey had lived at a remote camp on the slopes of a dormant volcano. There she studied and befriended the rare mountain gorillas, fiercely defending the huge, gentle creatures against the encroachment of poachers. Almost everyone, including her last research assistant, Wayne McGuire, 34, a doctoral candidate from the University of Oklahoma, felt she was more comfortable with the primates than with human beings, and Fossey apparently agreed. "I have no friends...
...novel's simple plot concerns a return to the O-Zone with Theroux's version of Tom Swift as technical consultant. A group of entrepreneurs wants to construct an artificial mountain to change the region's climate. Fizzy is captured by aliens, Daniel Boone throwbacks, who instruct him in the manly arts of survival and replace his prejudices with a sense of pride and possibility...
...sooner had Turner completed the MGM/UA acquisition than he started looking to reduce the debt mountain by finding a buyer for the company's movie-production-and-distribution business, its film-processing labs and its 45-acre studio lot near Los Angeles. In June he negotiated a complicated three-way deal in which the studio and film lab were sold to Lorimar- Telepictures (producers of Dallas and Falcon Crest), and the movie, TV and video operations went right back to Kerkorian. Proceeds from those sales might be sufficient to meet the September debt payments, but the terms are still under...
...disruptive agent is Dale Kohler, 28, a computer whiz kid at the university who comes to Roger with a bizarre request: a grant from the divinity school to support the young man's belief that the existence of God can be scientifically proved by processing the accumulating mountain of data about the universe. "God is breaking through," he announces. "They've been scraping away at physical reality all these centuries, and now the layer of the little left we don't understand is so fine God's face is staring right out at us." Crunch enough numbers through the right...