Word: treating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because of Arnold's apt suggestion, The Terminator turned out to be a memorable action picture, with a truly scary villain--a rare treat these days when real life is more frightening than the movies. If you've seen it even once, you remember at least two scenes: the one early on in which the killer robot from the Future picks up his high tech weaponry at a corner "Sport Shop" so heavily equipped it could be a member of NATO; and the sequence half-way through in which the Body lays waste to a police station, killing at least...
...with this maize produces hardy hybrids that should ultimately be worth billions of dollars to farmers. A great many of the prescription drugs sold in the U.S. are based on unique chemical compounds found in tropical plants. For example, vincristine, originally isolated from the Madagascan periwinkle, is used to treat some human cancers. Scientists are convinced that still undiscovered forest plants could be the source of countless new natural drugs...
...search of such medical bounty, Mark Plotkin, director of the World Wildlife Fund's plant program, has spent months at a time living with the Tirio tribe on the Suriname-Brazil border, studying the little-known plants the shamans use to treat patients. "Each time one of the medicine men dies," he says, "it's as if a library has burned down...
...didn't treat us like freshmen," saidRichard N. Louie '90, who also lives in Canaday."Harvard seems to have a lot of really nice peoplein high places," said Paul S. Wylie...
...feel housing authorities treat everyone the same. The implication is we are a bunch of racists and they are hitting us with the bigot stick," said Thomas Connelly Jr., association director...