Word: thorned
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...evolution are a mystery. But scientists have deduced from the study of primitive species that rudimentary mechanisms against infection existed in various forms of life more than a billion years ago. The first inkling of such progenitors came in 1883, when Russian Zoologist Elie Metchnikoff stuck a rose thorn into the larva of a starfish and a short time later observed that the thorn had been completely surrounded by cells. The cells were phagocytes. "These little guys go back in evolution a very long way," says Carol Reinisch of the Tufts School of Veterinary Medicine. "They have the ability...
...Browning leads the expedition. It moves down Interstate 20 in a 20-car- and-camper caravan and into the still brown land of broomweed and tumbleweed, thorn trees and mesquite and prickly-pear cactus. Browning has been hunting snakes since he was 14, always with the same high school friends. His wife Brenda accompanies him. "It's something we can do together," she says. "It's exciting, the thrill of not knowing, the danger. Bo hunts snakes like some people hunt deer, for the sport." "He's good," says a friend. "He just smells them...
Last month, one alumnus questioned whether the role of Radcliffe's president was "to be a thorn in Harvard's side." But with women holding only 7 percent of Harvard's tenured posts and representing only 17 percent of all faculty appointments, and with the festering problems of sexual harassment and unequal ratios of male to female admits, it is necessary for the President of Radcliffe to speak out--or give up her title as the highest advocate for women on campus...
Sankara had close ties with Moammar Kadhafi, although his support for the unpredictable Libyan leader was confined to rhetoric and he was considered a thorn in the side of France and other Western nations...
...under the pressure of revelation -- and sometimes it literally does, as when the back wall of the otherwise "normal" domestic scene of The Virgin and Christ in the House of Nazareth dissolves in clouds of fulgid light while the young Jesus, foreseeing his Passion, pricks his finger on a thorn...