Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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More than four inches of rain have fallen on the Boston area since freshmen first arrived at school on September 9th, Harold Terben, National Weather Service specialist, said yesterday. Other parts of the country, however, have escaped the deluge. "As a matter of fact, it's dry in the western portion of the country," Pannuto said...
Harvard students study abroad in Africa, Latin America, East Asia, Russia, and Australia. In Western Europe, Great Britain, France, Italy, and Spain are popular destinations...
Guiding a dubious visitor through the double-bolted doors of the venomous-snake room at Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, where he is curator of herpetology, Greene emphasizes his point by plucking a yard-long Western rattlesnake out of its cage. "Touch his skin or feel his rattle," he says. "They're really works...
...king snakes, deploy these alternatively in successive matings--perhaps, says Greene, to allow more frequent copulation. When Borneo's yellow-lipped sea- kraits breed, as many as half a dozen males may pile on a lone female. Copulation is usually brief but can last more than a day for Western diamondbacks (probably to reduce the female's exposure to rival males). Female snakes too deploy cunning reproductive strategies. North American pit vipers, for example, store sperm for months, until some instinct tells the cold-blooded creatures that the temperature is right for fertilization. Like birds (close kin), most species...
...them are busy issuing political manifestoes, organizing riots and working for the downfall of governments. From the Indian Ocean to the Sea of Japan, from the Irrawaddy to Tonkin Bay, [Buddhist monks] are causing political waves whose final effect they themselves cannot foresee but which are vitally affecting the Western--and the Communist--role in the fate of Asia... It was only 18 months ago that a 73-year-old Buddhist monk...sat down in...a Saigon street and...calmly set himself afire with a cigarette lighter to dramatize Buddhist opposition to the regime of President Ngo Dinh Diem...