Word: snail
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite satellite-age coverage of the war, news seemed to come at a snail's pace, increasing the worry...
Others appear to be getting even less. And that is interfering with their ability to learn, contend teachers, who say they are confronting more and more draggy pupils, even in elementary school. Sleepy youngsters are arriving late to class, forgetting assignments, moving at a snail's pace from task to task, and sometimes dropping their head on their desk to catch a few winks...
...idealistic first-year, I set out with an evangelical fervor to debunk the cowtipping myth. After all, Harvard prides itself how students from diverse backgrounds learn so much from one other. Since I never spent a year teaching calculus to Tibetan peasants or did any groundbreaking research on snail mating, I figured my unique intellectual contribution would be in the area of livestock management...
...unique is that it views the % world not through man's eyes but from the high ground of the Creation. It sets no test for survival and respects the meek as it does the mighty. The humpback whale and the black rhinoceros enjoy no greater protection than the noonday snail and the lakeside daisy. Recently an inch-long unpigmented eyeless shrimp found in a sinkhole near Gainesville, Fla., joined the ranks of the imperiled. In shielding the humblest species, the act expresses its highest reverence for diversity, and has evolved into an almost sacred covenant defining the nation's relationship...
...that the spotted owl has joined the dam-busting snail darter on the endangered-species list, President Bush wants to dilute the act that protects them. Some other denizens...