Word: woods
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...days after Commencement, the activists voted to remove the wood-and-garbage-bag structures since they did not have enough people to guard the shanties through the summer months. The group left the Ivory Tower and one of the larger structures, which they had used as a lecture hall, standing because they were too bulky to remove...
...said to be based on more than 800 interviews, is already causing a sensation. In PEOPLE magazine excerpts last week and this, % Kelley portrays Ol' Blue Eyes as a score-keeping Lothario whose list of discarded leading ladies includes Elizabeth Taylor, Judy Garland, Lauren Bacall, Victoria Principal and Natalie Wood. Sinatra, who tried unsuccessfully to stop the book with a $2 million lawsuit three years ago, is declining comment on what his publicist dismisses as "regurgitated material." Instead, he was back doing it his way last week, at the opening of the renovated Chicago Theater, where he got an ovation...
Despite their great age, the stumps, logs and leaves are astonishingly well preserved. "This fossil forest is not petrified, turned to stone by minerals entering and replacing the wood cell structure," says Neil McMillan, of the Geological Survey of Canada, who discovered a similar but much smaller site 30 years ago on nearby Ellesmere Island. Instead, shallow burial in the Arctic soil has left the forest in a mummified state. As a result, says Basinger, "you can saw the wood. You can burn it." Indeed, during an expedition to the site in July, he actually brewed...
...scientists shoveled away soil covering some of the mummified wood, then used brushes to sweep away the remaining dirt so the roots of the ancient stumps would not be damaged. All told, they excavated a dozen stumps to a depth of three feet, identifying some of the trees as dawn redwoods. This species was once widespread throughout high latitudes in North America, Europe and Asia, but is now nearly extinct, surviving in only a few locations in China...
...resembled that of Northern California today, with one exception: that far north, the sun never sets in summer and never rises in winter. "How did the trees grow so lushly in five months a year of blackness, without photosynthesis?" McMillan wonders. Francis, now back in Australia with samples of wood, leaves and soil from the island, suggests one possibility: "It may be that they shed their leaves and just stood dormant until it became light again, and then grew like...