Word: vitus
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...health workers regroup to discuss their findings, the volunteers voice their frustrations with a disease that is so harmful yet so easily preventable. Like his colleagues, Vitus Naporow, an Area Coordinator working for the Ghana Guinea Worm Eradication Program, cannot understand why his community resists the simple steps that would eradicate Guinea worm from the area...
...then you look, and they're a big ball of fluff." [This article contains a complex diagram. Please see hardcopy or pdf.] Hunted Nearly To Extinction Russia's Peter the Great declared a monopoly on sable in 1697 and sent hunters to find sea routes to America.When Vitus Bering's expedition was shipwrecked in 1741, his crew killed sea otters instead. They returned with 900 luxuriant pelts, setting off the Great Hunt. When the otters were depleted, Russia sold Alaska to the U.S. SEA OTTER FUR Built for warmth 1 million hairs per sq. in. Guard Hair Underfur Trapped...
...peninsula's capital, Petropavlovsk, founded in 1740 by Danish explorer Vitus Bering?Xfor whom the Bering Sea and Strait are named?Xis a morass of Soviet-style apartment blocks and potholed streets, incongruously framed by a mist-swathed harbor and snowcapped volcanoes. Its few hotels and restaurants are drab. Yet we found a certain eccentric charm in menus featuring "fern salad" and "boiled pieces of paste" for breakfast and "burning mussels with rice" and "cowberry drink" for dinner...
...star of the mid-50s) just stood around and smiled. Elvis, in the instrumental interludes between his singing, simply did what countless showbiz troupers had done on music-hall, vaudeville and Broadway stages: danced. His gyrations weren't exactly the old soft-shoe. But it was a dance: St. Vitus...
...capital, Petropavlovsk, founded in 1740 by Danish explorer Vitus Bering--for whom the Bering Sea and Strait are named--is a morass of Soviet-style apartment blocks and potholed streets, incongruously framed by a mist-swathed harbor and snowcapped volcanoes. Its few hotels and restaurants are drab. Yet we found a certain eccentric charm in menus featuring "fern salad" and "boiled pieces of paste" for breakfast, and "burning mussels with rice" and "cowberry drink" for dinner...