Word: pollens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pollen and mold levels are soaring because of this winter's wacky weather, which yielded unusually warm temperatures in California, New Mexico, Texas and Arizona. In fact, the allergy season in those states is making an appearance about three weeks early...
Scientists, too, value amber. Trapped within the translucent, usually gold-colored substance are some of the most ancient examples of certain species known to science. The oldest ants, moths, stingless bees, caterpillars, termites, mushrooms and pollen grains, some of them dating back tens of millions of years, have been found in amber. And unlike ordinary fossils, which are relatively crude rock molds of prehistoric life forms, these specimens are often perfectly preserved, with the most delicate features intact...
...having an abortion simply because of the child's sexual orientation. He sees his own life being "rubbed out" along with the fetus. Suzanne, in turn, resents David's intrusion into what she considers to be a very private affair. The senior Golds. Walter (Stephen Epstein) and Phyllis (Sarah Pollen) tread lightly around the situation. They want to respect their daughter's privacy and final decision, but they also want David clued-in to what is going on in the family. The last thing they want as precisely what they get: a blowout where Walter basically admits...
...Wood-Sprite is a tale in whose mere three pages Nabokov concentrates the essence of heartache and playfulness that distinguishes the best of his work. A Russian writer who has fled the terrors of his revolutionary homeland imagines a visit from a forest elf ("hunched, gray, powdered with pollen") who explains why he too had to leave the new Soviet state: "Once, toward evening, I skipped out into a glade, and what do I see? People lying around, some on their backs, some on their bellies. Well, I think, I'll wake them up, I'll get them moving...
...mammal species. The only known group of flying mammals, they range in size from Thailand's tiny bumblebee bat, weighing less than a penny, to Indonesia's giant flying fox, with wingspans of nearly 6 ft. Many bats feed on insects, while others prefer fruit, nectar or pollen. A few feast on fish, frogs, rodents and, yes, blood. Contrary to legend, however, vampire bats, which dwell in Latin America, suck the blood of grazing cattle and horses, not sleeping humans...