Word: rub
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...forest clearing near Wamba in equatorial Zaire, a group of bonobos, or pygmy chimpanzees, approaches a juicy stash of sugarcane laid out by Japanese researchers. As the animals draw near the sweets, they begin an astonishing series of sexual interactions. Some females embrace, rubbing their genitals against each other; males rub rumps, and sometimes briefly enter into what looks like mating. There is plenty of heterosexual sex too, as well as adult- infant encounters and enough mixing and matching to offend every puritanical sensibility. Scientists have observed similar orgies when bonobos converge on fig trees ripe with the sticky fruit...
...marketing dodge, that is known as rub-off. Don't roll your eyes. There are companies that can prove Olympic rub-off is more powerful than fried garlic. Consider: the athletic-shoe business alone generates $13 billion annually in retail worldwide sales. Shorts, socks, sweatbands and such are worth a couple of billion dollars more. So the prospect of Michael Jordan mounting the victory stand to accept his gold medal in basketball wearing togs provided by his very own sponsor, Nike, naturally had the folks at Reebok stamping their feet. Reebok purchased the exclusive modeling rights, they thought...
...liked to have someone rub his head with petroleum jelly while...
...elephants. Says Ndokanda: "This is the elephant's city, and the leopard's and other animals' too." The grid of paths leads to the elephants' favorite spots: mineral licks and clearings, where they socialize with relatives and friends; baths, where they cover themselves with mud; knobby trees, where they rub the mud off, stripping their skin of ticks in the process; and trees such as the Balanites wilsoniana and Autranella congoensis, beloved by the big animals for their fruits...
...implement the changes that he has targeted,however, the new president will first have toovercome Harvard's notorious institutionalinertia, which often appears to rub off, at leastpartially, on its leaders...