Word: nested
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Third and Oak is a nest of treasures, touching on contemporary issues of relationships between men and women, history and future facing the African-American community, while maintaining the universal appeal that marks any truly great literature...
They were mean and bloodthirsty, sure, but such dinosaurs as Tyrannosaurus rex may well have had a more caring side. The clue is the discovery of a fossilized embryo from a carnivorous dinosaur: an oviraptor found in Mongolia. The embryo was lodged in a nest, which also contained bones from other tiny dinos that mother oviraptor might have eaten while watching over her sharp- toothed darlings. Apparently even prehistoric monsters knew how to parent...
...backed development banks, is buying a 33% share of Whitehall. The bank loans will be paid off with profits from farm sales, and the workers calculate that in 10 years each of their shares should be worth about $28,000. For any South African worker, that is a sizable nest egg -- and a rarity in the traditional master-servant world of South African farming...
...their ostrich-sized "nest eggs...
Even if there had been no other fossils in the nest, the discovery of an embryonic oviraptor would have been important. Dinosaur embryos are rare -- fewer than a dozen kinds have ever been found. Juvenile animals often have features that vanish as the creatures grow, but which also exist in the embryos of their precursors or descendants (human fetuses, for example, start out with tiny tails). If researchers can find common traits in unhatched dinosaurs and birds, they will be able to establish stronger links between them...