Word: nearly
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...Near France's Ardeche River, explorers discover the Chauvet cave, whose paintings are believed to be more than 30,000 years...
...count on the support of leading scientists and conservation organizations, and was well positioned to command a hearing. Even so, the Digest and other magazines had little interest in this gloomy subject. Then, in 1957, there was a startling wildlife mortality in the wake of a mosquito-control campaign near Duxbury, Mass., followed by a pointless spraying of a DDT/fuel-oil mix over eastern Long Island for eradication of the gypsy moth. Next, an all-out war in the Southern states against the fire ant did such widespread harm to other creatures that its beneficiaries cried for mercy; and after that...
...February 1956, with financing from Beckman Instruments Inc., he founded Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory with the goal of developing and producing a silicon transistor. He chose to establish this start-up near Palo Alto, where he had grown up and where his mother still lived. He set up operations in a storefront--little more than a Quonset hut--and hired a group of young scientists (I was one of them) to develop the necessary technology. By the spring of 1956 he had a small staff in place and was beginning to undertake research and development...
...Farmers discover an army of life-size terra-cotta human figures in a 3rd century B.C. Chinese emperor's tomb near Xian...
...Deep-sea vents are found near the Galapagos Islands. The hot, sulfurous water around the vents supports new species of bacteria and sea life...