Word: plant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bagged groceries at the supermarket where she worked and brought her roses nearly every week. He gave her a nice diamond when he proposed. Her parents loved him. They kept a neat home in spite of small salaries (she worked a cash register; he retreaded tires at a Goodyear plant). Now they had three bedrooms: one spare, one sheltering the shards of a marriage, one painfully bereft of a baby...
...squarely in the Bronx. Recently built into the southwest corner of the sprawling Bronx Zoo, the 6.5-acre range is a magnificent exercise in environmental illusion. The leaves the gorillas are munching are willow, native to the U.S.; the strangler fig is really catalpa, a local species; the understory plant is butterbur, native to Japan; the fallen tree is made out of metal, mesh and layers of epoxy; and a few hundred yards from the recorded sounds of hornbills and monkeys, Latin music blares from a picnic on a sweltering June afternoon...
...nutrition out there these days," says TIME medical columnist Christine Gorman, "that anything that tries to unify recommendations is welcome." To be useful, the Unified Dietary Guidelines go beyond percentages of calories and milligrams to give more concrete advice. Among the suggestions: Choose most of what you eat from plant sources and eat high-fat foods sparingly, especially those from animal sources. The guidelines also give suggested servings. But pay attention to what one serving means, says Gorman. It doesn?t mean a glop of food on a plate. "For fruit and vegetables, it usually means half...
...physical plant will really follow the adage of form follows function," Zewinski says. "Whatever the academic priorities are will shape the physical plant...
...physical plant will really follow theadage of form follows function," Zewinski says."Whatever the academic priorities are will shapethe physical plant...