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...cautionary example. When Europeans first landed there in 1722, they found 3,000 Polynesians living in extremely primitive conditions on the island amid the remnants of a once flourishing culture. The story of Easter Island is one of ecological collapse that began around the year 1600, when a swollen population of 7,000 stripped the island of trees, depriving inhabitants of building materials for fishing boats and housing. As the populace retreated to caves, various clans warred over resources, then enslaved and later cannibalized the vanquished. By the time Europeans arrived, the beleaguered survivors had forgotten the purpose...
...fingers from many places in the hands and arms, can swell up, producing painful tendinitis. Soreness can also result from the inflammation of sheaths surrounding the tendons. Muscles in the forearm that control the movement of fingers may become irritated, a condition called myositis. As tissues become inflamed and swollen, they can press on nearby nerves, causing tingling and weakness in the fingers. Sometimes scar tissue develops in the area. All together these injuries, if not treated, can result in diminished coordination and strength: patients may literally lose their grip and have trouble managing simple manual tasks...
However, Southerners are not alone. Stuffed-up yawning Northerners have been moping around campus as well. Elizabeth S. Ratner '96, a New Yorker, says she was alerted to her ill status by swollen glands and a sore throat. "It's been pretty static and is peaking right now at a pretty low level of congestion," Ratner says...
...earth, red flesh inflected with deeper, Indian-red drawing. It could not be more vivid or explicit, or better attuned to the fresco-like scale of the canvas. And yet how provisional these dancers seem, compared with their ancestors; how deliberately imperfect, within the brusque signs for arched back, swollen belly, prancing, dragging, reaching. One clue to this is the complicated knot formed by the crossing legs of the second figure from the left, and the hands of the two dancers in front of her. There the circle of the dance breaks; the hands have come apart, they...
...California as well as in Washington and Oregon, where phylloxeras have also been spotted, the lice feed on roots as deep as 6 ft. beneath the soil, leaving them susceptible to soil fungus and other infections. Roots under attack become swollen and deformed; eventually the vine and its grapes shrivel and die. Says Ed Weber, a Napa County viticultural adviser: "It looks like someone took a blowtorch to them...