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...find a miracle brewing in a place called Uruka Amahuaja, a cluster of huts in the Venezuelan rain forest, reachable only by dugout canoe. Biologist Ramiro Royero has set up a computerized field office there to collect data on a plant still unknown to the outside world: a shrub whose poinsettia-like leaves are steeped as a medicinal tea by the Piaroa tribe to relieve menstrual cramps--without the caffeine jitters and other side effects caused by most of today's commercial remedies...
...flowering, ropelike vine, first introduced from Asia in 1876. The U.S. Soil Conservation Service once paid farmers to plant it to stop erosion; now kudzu rampages across large swaths of the South, strangling and killing trees and all other plant life in its wake. Benign-looking cheatgrass carpets the shrub-steppes of the West and feeds some grazing species and birds. But it's also explosive kindling that increases the frequency and intensity of wild forest fires. Drive along any U.S. highway and you'll likely catch sight of purple loosestrife's telltale slender stalks and magenta flowers. Brought over...
...protect street trees that are in the path of construction.” In a letter delivered yesterday, Healy said such concerns already fall under a Massachusetts law allowing city governments to charge an assailant who “wantonly injures, defaces or destroys a shrub, plant, [or] tree” with a $500 fine and the cost of the defaced shrubbery...
DIED. Molly Ivins, 62, acerbic commentator, whose columns skewered the high and mighty; after a seven-year fight with breast cancer; in Austin, Texas. Ivins, who famously referred to George W. Bush as "Shrub," could write with heartfelt earnestness yet just as naturally refer to height-challenged politicians as "runts with attitudes." The three-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, in a recent column on Bush's troop surge, offered what could serve as her epitaph: "Raise hell. Think of something to make the ridiculous look ridiculous...
...Ironically, she shared her transplanted Texas status with the man she dubbed "Shrub," President George W. Bush, whose affection for his adopted state no doubt matched Molly's. The two "vaguely knew" each other during their high school years through mutual friends in Houston's tony society. "He went to prep school back East and I went to prep school in Houston," Molly recalled. Born in Monterey, Calif., in 1944, Molly had moved back to Texas with her family as the war wound down and her father's military service ended. While he worked as a corporate attorney...