Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...army, he published some of the basic studies on cockroach behavior. Before chemical sex attractants were termed pheromones, Roth discovered the effect that these female secretions have on the males of their species. The author of 163 publications has also described the life history of several species previously unknown to entomologists...
...fact, Roth says one known species on the Steppes of Russia have gone extinct during his lifetime, and he suspects that other unknown cockroach species are now gone as well. "At the rate the tropical rain forest is being destroyed, many of my friends are probably becoming extinct. I think that is one of the reasons we should be describing these things, so we have a record of them...
...ritual: paint on her body, diamonds on the soles of her feet, finally a branding iron pressed to her lips. A rude flash, and we see the scene of a car accident. The jewels are mortal wounds, the priests surgeons, the vision one of hope and fear for the unknown world that follows death. Visually, Russell's sequence is pitched at see above high- see. Emotionally, it takes preposterous risks and pulls them...
...Carpenter staff members' macabre description of the ledge would indicate, the danger was not unknown. In 1985, a state inspector, visiting Carpenter on entirely different business, noticed the railing and wrote to city officials and Harvard administrators calling it "a gross violation of existing codes...
Connecticut will be an unknown foe, however. Radcliffe has never played the team, and Connecticut did not show up at the N.E. tournament last weekend...