Word: plywood
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Last year, Harvard biologist Andrew A. Biewener and then-grad student Monica A. Daley made seven helmeted guinea fowl—birds similar to pheasants—dash down a 20-foot-long plywood runway. Not just any old plywood runway, mind you, but one equipped with a device that measures force and a high-speed digital video camera...
Running on the plywood track, the fowl had to traverse a hidden 8.5-centimeter-deep pothole camouflaged by tissue paper...
...African desert. Enter the world of Donna Karan. Like Ralph Lauren, she is an expert seductress when it comes to style. She can conjure her last trip to Egypt or Israel by simply painting the walls the color of wet sand, burning tangy incense and laying out a rough plywood floor. By the time the frocks come galloping out on platform shoes with heels that are sculpted in such a way as to resemble the handles of kitchen utensils, the clothes seem irrelevant. You're in Donna's world and everything else falls away. In her world it's easy...
...first thing to do was sort out the bodies. The other bed in the room was empty, so we picked up the nurse and put her on her back on a back-board (a flat piece of plywood that makes chest compressions more effective than they are on a soft bed). She had no palpable pulse and the nurses couldn't get a blood pressure, but she was still weakly responsive to noxious stimuli. This is the medical term for stuff that bothers...
...Being plopped onto a piece of plywood, having your clothes ripped off, a two hundred pound man driving the heels of his hands into the center of your chest while others poke needles into your limbs and groin, another squeezes a rubber mask over your face and another prepares to send four hundred watt-seconds of electricity across your body is a noxious stimulus, however you slice...