Word: wormed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...surprise that the first CD-ROM from the eyeball-headed San Francisco group should be called Freak Show -- a virtual version of their 1990 set. The user enters a carnival big top to see and hear such freaks as Harry the Head, Herman the Human Mole, Wanda the Worm Woman, Jello Jack the Boneless Boy and Bouncing Benny the Bump. Later the user can wander backstage and sneak into the freaks' trailers, flip through their photo albums, read their love letters, watch music videos on their TV sets. Animated by Jim Ludtke, Freak Show has an artfully eerie feel...
...does the worm turn. I can momentarily, at least, rest easy, knowing that my dilemma rests in the very competent hands of Ronn Tomassoni--he won't pull the trigger on either one of them until he's absolutely sure in his decision...
...malls; onward, ever onward, until it comes to rest 160 miles later among the black neighborhoods of Durham. It is narrow, as narrow in some spots as one lane of the I-85 Interstate highway. Its friends call it "a string of pearls." Most people settle for "snake" or "worm." But what it is, obviously and manifestly, is a gerrymander...
Every biologist knows that females spend a lot of energy making a small number of eggs, while males churn out huge quantities of sperm almost effortlessly. Not so, says a scientist who has studied the sex life of a worm no bigger than an apostrophe. Male soil nematodes that copulate a lot -- and thus produce a lot of sperm -- live only two-thirds as long as fellow worms that copulate but don't make sperm, according to a report in Nature. University of Arizona researcher Wayne Van Voorhies warns that it may be a mistake to make the leap from...
...others in urging me to help assemble a body of international observers to ensure that honest elections are held as scheduled in December. This is an encouraging sign that often delayed plans for multiparty democracy will be completed. Togo will soon become the third African country to mount Guinea-worm eradication programs in all endemic villages...