Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...creatures of the sea are uniquely vulnerable to contamination. "Fish are like sponges," explains consumer advocate Ellen Haas of Public Voice for Food and Health Policy. "They are highly susceptible to absorbing contaminants in water." Fish is the only major food group that lives and feeds in the wild. And compared with beef cattle and chickens, which eat mainly grasses and grain, many fish are high up in the food chain. In a process called biomagnification, tiny fish pick up contaminants from the plankton they feed on in polluted waters, concentrating heavy metals like methylmercury in their organs. The little...
...vaccinated mice in the lab, the disease bacteria inside the ticks were killed as well. That was totally unexpected; if it works the same way in humans, the vaccine could lead not only to the prevention of Lyme disease in humans but to its complete elimination in the wild...
Real bargains await adventurous shoppers who are willing to make the trek for wild music and low prices. A short walk along Mass Ave toward Central Square will bring you to Mystery Train Records (1208 Mass. Ave.), a tiny shop crammed with good new and used music on vinyl, CD and cassette at bargain rates...
...villain, and she isn't Wonder Woman fighting for the greater good of society. That has no meaning for a lonely, lowly, harassed secretary toiling away in the depths of Gotham City. But she does have her own agenda. She's nobody's toy. She's a wild card -- the movie's independent variable...
...mental rather than a physical farce. She simply moves into the house, inventing a secret marriage to Davis complete with details so preposterous that everyone, including his parents (Julie Harris and Donald Moffat), believes her. The assumption is that no one could possibly concoct a tale as wild as the one she tells...