Word: nile
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...slid downhill, rolling over Rossel and her husband. Her husband, Brian M. Wood, who is a graduate student in biological anthropology, was not seriously hurt. Rossel was in her eighth year at Harvard. She recently completed her dissertation on the animal exploitation practices of two different communities in the Nile Valley, analyzing animal bones from two archaeological sites. “She was always very excited to see the day’s finds, and ran out every day to greet the donkey cart when it came in from the site,” said University of Pennsylvania professor Josef...
Rossel was in her eighth year at Harvard. She recently completed her dissertation on the animal exploitation practices of two different communities in the Nile Valley, analyzing animal bones from two archaeological sites...
...Maraba, through which Texas A&M University agronomist Tim Schilling had driven me in his pickup an hour earlier. Rwanda is tiny and landlocked, an oasis of rain, lakes and volcanoes in the heart of Africa. Its slopes are home to mountain gorillas and the furthest source of the Nile. They are also, Schilling says, "where God would have chosen to grow coffee...
...Growing seasons will be cut short and stretches of land made unsuitable for agriculture, with yields declining by as much as 50% in some countries. In sub-Saharan Africa, between 25% and 40% of animals in national parks may become endangered. Africa's major bodies of water, including the Nile, will suffer excessive flooding caused by rising sea levels...
State health officials have discovered West Nile Virus in Cambridge mosquito populations, and yesterday announced that two new human cases have been identified in Massachusetts. Three cases of human West Nile Virus had been found in Massachusetts earlier in the summer, but the new cases differed in that state health officials believe the residents—one from Arlington, the other from Worchester—contracted the disease in Massachusetts. Despite the recent cases, and the discovery earlier this month of infected mosquito populations just north of Mount Auburn Cemetery, the University’s West Nile Virus Task Force...