Word: mud
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...highlands of Papua New Guinea, in a village near Goroka, the warriors, all but naked, smear their bodies with a pale mud and don surreal mud masks. Taking up clubs and spears and bows, they crouch and advance, ghostly, out of the Stone Age (which they inhabited until the day before yesterday) and into a clicking horde of tourists from a cruise ship that docked on the coast this morning. The "mud men" mime ferocity for a little while; then they mingle shyly in the crowd of rich white aliens and try to make sense of the paper money...
...Coffee Mud Pie is very strong. Only acoffee lover should venture a scoop. It's alsostickily sweet, with the fudge overpowering attimes...
...from the T stop. Far from being a concrete jungle (well, except for Holyoke Center) this region actually has trees. Many parts of the Square, including Harvard Yard, Radcliffe Yard and the Cambridge Common, are delightfully leafy, shaded enclaves. In the winter, the city's open space turns into mud. But during the summer months, students can sprawl on Harvard lawns that were carefully made green for the Commencement crowds...
...catalog companies' success has not come at the expense of the nurseries, which can offer the impatient gardener much more instant gratification. This is not your corner garden shop anymore. The paths between the perennials are paved, so high heels will not plunge into the mud. There is Italian soda available at the door, and tarragon-turkey sandwiches on pita bread. "Today retailing is theater," says Don Riddle Jr., president of Homestead Gardens in Maryland, whose $10 million in revenues last year were up 21% from the year before. Homestead sold $60,000 worth of orchids last year alone, triple...
...found evidence of the worst drought in the past 7,000 years may help explain the unexplained collapse of the Mayan civilization. Samples of ancient mud from the bottom of a lake in the area where the Mayans lived show signs of the severe drought right around the time the Mayans mysteriously abandoned their cities. Anthropologists believe the new evidence fits the generally accepted theory that a number of factors -- drought, overpopulation, inter-city warfare and environmental collapse -- brought on the society's demise...