Word: variously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Police charged students with various possession and distribution offenses; the drugs involved included LSD, cocaine, marijuana and hashish...
Unlike Webster's, Cassidy's will not seek to offer a standardized version of the language; its gaze is fixed instead on linguistic oddities too localized to win general acceptance. For example, Cassidy has discovered that in various parts of the U.S. a heavy rain is called a duck drencher, a chunk floater, a clod roller, a toad strangler and a goose drownder. False teeth are known colloquially as snappers, plaster pearls, chow chompers and china clippers. The term baby carriage is now used nationally, but baby coach is a popular variation in Mid-Atlantic states and baby buggy...
...their separate paths much more recently. Their evidence is not ancient bones, but what the University of California's Vincent Sarich calls a "genetic clock." That timepiece is based on comparative studies, done since the early 1960s, of the blood proteins, immunology and DNA (the genetic molecule) of various mammals, including the primates. Out of this work scientists have been able to measure the degree of genetic kinship among different species. They have found, for example, that while the genes of horse and Homo sapiens differ by as much as 20%, those of chimps and man vary by only...
...using such genetic differences almost as if they were tree rings, Sarich and John Cronin have gone on at Berkeley to produce a chronology for the appearance of various creatures. Their research has provided hitherto unavailable biochemical support for the traditional idea that the Asian apes, the gibbons and orangutans, branched off from the common primate evolutionary tree much earlier than chimps, gorillas and man. But it also offers what Sarich and Cronin consider strong evidence that the split between man and African apes occurred only 4 million to 6 million years...
Curry, 29, an Englishman who won the gold medal for men's figure skating at the 1976 Olympics, was inevitably offered high-paying jobs by various ice shows. He turned them all down to pursue his own vision. "I don't like to criticize them," he told a reporter, "but I feel they are an antiquated form of entertainment. When I go to see ice shows, I don't actually see much skating. What I see is a lot of spectacle, a lot of camouflage, a lot of substitution, and very little of the real thing." What...