Word: piercees
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Naomi Pierce can't explain why she loves butterflies, but she does.
Pierce has built her career upon observing, studying and theorizing about the winged insects. More specifically, she has spent most of her time studying the mutualism between butterfly and ant species. In her work, she has come across an unusual relationship whereby ants protect caterpillars from predators and the caterpillars...
And just as Pierce studies the mutual relationship between insects, she herself engages in a mutual relationship with other entymological disciplines. Colleagues say Pierce has a unique talent for tackling the tough questions about butterflies by drawing on approaches from fields other than her own.
"What is particularly unusal about Naomi is her ability to attack the same subject from many different points of view," says Norm Carlin, who studied with Pierce in the Biology Department at exocrine biology--she's remarkably well-versed in a number of different areas."
Even as countries strove to pierce the veil of deceit and corruption that shrouds B.C.C.I., fresh disclosures of the bank's influence peddling came to light. TIME has learned that Pharaon helped keep CenTrust open for a year longer than its bankrupt condition warranted after acquiring a total of 1.5...