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• In the 1980s, Barry Marshall was a doctor in Australia who was concerned because about 10% of adults suffered from stomach ulcers. At the time, doctors thought ulcers were caused by stress, smoking, and poor eating habits. But Dr. Marshall suspected ulcers were caused by a bacteria called H. pylori.

• The problem was that he couldn’t infect any lab animals with H. pylori, not knowing at the time that this strain of bacteria infects only primates.

• Papers he wrote were roundly ridiculed by gastroenterologists. Unable to experiment on animals, and prohibited from experimenting on people, he did what he had to do: he isolated a culture of H. pylori from a patient who had an ulcer, mixed it with broth, and drank it. Within days he developed a stomach ulcer. When the ulcer was confirmed, he cured himself with antibiotics.

• From there, he proved that every person who had a stomach ulcer also had H. pylori. He later developed a breath test that can tell if a person is suffering from an H. pylori infection. In 2005 he was awarded a Nobel Prize for his efforts. (continued on next page)

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• In May of 1950, a catastrophic flood of the Red River in Manitoba, Canada, inundated the city of Winnipeg. Over 100,000 people had to be evacuated in the biggest evacuation in Canada’s history at the time. Duff Roblin was Manitoba’s Premier at the time and he decided the city should never again be subjected to such a flood.

• His solution was to dig a 29-mile long (47 km) ditch around the city, designed to divert excess water from the Red River in times of flood.

The project cost $63 million Canadian dollars, equivalent to approximately $360 million today, and took 7 years to complete. It was the second largest earth-moving construction project in history, next to the building of the Panama Canal.

• Duff Roblin’s opponents and constituents ridiculed the project, dubbing it “Duff’s Ditch” and predicting it would never be useful. No sooner had it been completed than it was put into use, saving the city from flooding in 1968. Since then, it’s been used twenty more times, saving Winnipeg from floods over and over again.

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• Kotoko Wamura was a child in Japan when a 30-foot (9m) tsunami swept away the town of Fudai. He remembered tales of a 50-foot (15m) tsunami that hit in 1896. So when he was elected mayor of Fudai in the 1960s, he insisted a 50-foot seawall be built to protect the town.

People were outraged at the cost and angry that it blocked their view of the sea. Others argued that a 30-foot wall would be tall enough. But Kotoko Wamura held firm, and the seawall was built. He died in 1987 so he didn’t live to see the day in March of 2011 when his 50-foot seawall saved his beloved town. (continued on next page)

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DEAR PAW’S CORNER: I recently graduated from college and took a job in a brandnew city. The area is great, but I feel lonely most of the time and haven’t really met anyone I can hang out with regularly. A colleague at work laughingly suggested that I get a dog. Although it was meant to be a joke, I’m kind of considering it. Should I get a dog, or is it a bad idea to have one in the city? -- Kurt H., Somerville, Massachusetts DEAR KURT: It sounds like a great option. Of course, as a pet-care adviser, I’m a little bit partial to the idea. But I also can tell you that pets not only enrich our lives, but enrich the lives of our neighbors in subtle ways, too. A new study reported in Scientific American found that people with pets are more likely to get to know other people in the neighborhood, and those relationships have more substance than casual “hellos.”

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• Alfred Wegener was a German scientist born in 1880. His research showed that the rock strata and the fossil record on one edge of a continent matched the rock strata and fossil record THE on the“X” opposing edge (continued): of another contiFACTOR nent separated by thousands of milesIf ofyou ocean.

• Do you suffer from xeroderma? have Heabnormal noticed that the continents to fit dryness of the skin,seemed this term applies together to you!like a jigsaw puzzle: the eastern edge of South America fit into the gap of the western • From the 16th to the 19th centuries, pirates on edge Africa; the coasts Australia and threeIndia theofMediterranean Sea of sailed a small matched the coast of Antartctica on so on. masted vessel with square and triangular sails enabled them to faster that thanalltheir • Inthat 1912 he presented his sail hypothesis prospective victims.

Depending on the size of the continents had once been joined together the ship, known as a xebec, between 16 and 40 in a single landmass that had drifted apart. He guns might be mounted on the vessel. called the landmass “Urkontinent” which is • The word xenia has a variety meanings.

German for “primal continent,” andof coined the To the ancient Greeks, it was the concept of term “continental drift.” and courtesy shown hospitality, generosity, • Geologists allfrom over the world him.it’s to those far home.

To ridiculed the botanist, How could something as large as a continent the effect of pollen on a seed. And to those in Ohio, it’s the county Greene County, move?

What would causeseat theof movement? a community about that 21 miles (34 km) force from Wegener hypothesized the centrifugal Dayton. of the Earth’s rotation caused it, or astronomi• Xystus is an term, referring cal influences, or architectural a rift under the ocean that to a long, covered portico, or main entrance, was spreading apart. His theories were almost of ancient Greek gymnasiums. athletes universally rejected.

He died on aHere, polar expediwould exercise during inclement weather. tion 1930 withoutthe gaining recognition Tointhe Romans, xystus was the for garden thiswalkway discovery. in front of the porticoes, where they • By the 1950s, evidence in favor of continental planted flower beds. drift was beginning to accumulate. When sonar • Physicians are familiar with two unusual “X” technology advanced to the pointThe where the is a words, xyster and xiphisterna. xyster instrument used afor bones, seasurgical floor could be mapped, bigscraping expanding rift while the xiphisterna refers to the cartilage at was discovered in the Pacific. By the 1960s, the the lower end of the body’s sternum, that long theory of plate tectonics was well developed, flat bone located at the center of the chest.

“Urkontinent“ was re-named Pangea, and We• The Greek word xanthos translates “yellow,” gener was vindicated long after his death. and several of our words Medal use it for a prefix.

• Today, the Alfred Wegener is awarded Xanthophyll is a yellow pigment found along bywith the Alfred Wegener in Institute researchcholorophyll greentoplants.

Plants erswith in the field of geoscience each year. To With yellow stems are xanthopous. those advances in GPS technology, the movement of suffering from the abnormal vision condition as xanthopsia, everything theknown continents is now precisely tracked.they see seems to have a yellowonhue. (continued page 5)

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• Clair Patterson spent many years working as a chemist for the California Institute of Technology. He focused on working with lead, a heavy metal that is toxic when inhaled or ingested.

• When uranium decays, it turns into lead. The half-life of uranium is over 4 billion years, so by measuring the decay of uranium/lead, scientist can estimate the age of minerals in the same sort of way carbon dating is used to measure the age of organic material. In 1956, Patterson was the first person to use uranium-lead dating to estimate the age of the Earth at 4.55 billion years, a figure that is still considered accurate.

• The focus of Patterson’s career was tracking the geo-chemical evolution of the Earth. While measuring the chemicals in ice core samples taken from Greenland, he noted an alarming increase in the amount of lead that coincided with the date in the 1920s that gasoline companies began adding lead to gas in order to stop engines from knocking. When he compared the lead content of skeletons of people buried in the 1600s (none) to the amount of lead in the skeletons of people who had died recently (high), he became alarmed. He proved that after lead was added to gasoline, the amount of lead being deposited in the environment was 80 times greater than it had been previously.

• In 1965, Patterson began a concerted effort to have lead removed from gasoline. Gasoline companies fought back hard. He was ridiculed and his research was disparaged. But his efforts paid off: lead was phased out of American gas products by 1986.

• Patterson then led the charge to have lead removed from tin cans, and it was subsequently also removed from paint.

• By the time Patterson died in 1995, the level of lead in the blood of Americans had dropped by 80%.

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• Chamomile came from the Greek words “chamai” meaning “on the ground,” and “melon” meaning “apple.”

• Columbine comes from the Latin word “columba” meaning “dove” because the flowers resemble a circle of doves.

• Geraniums were named from the Greek word “geranos” meaning “crane,” because the seed pods are pointed like the bill of a crane.

• “Pasque” was the old French word for Passover and Easter, and the Pasque flower was so named because it blooms around that time of year.

• “Pentstemon” is Greek and means literally “five stamens.”

• Pansy comes from the French word “pensée” which means “thoughtful,” because the flower looks somewhat like a pensive face.

• Clematis comes from the Greek word “klema” meaning “vine branch.”

• Aster comes from the Latin word for star.

• Daisy comes from “days eye,” referring to its habit of opening in the morning and closing at dusk.

• “Gladiolus” is Latin for little sword, and from it we get gladiator, a sword-wielding fighter, and gladiolus, which has sword-shaped leaves.

• The Virgin Mary had many plants named for her, including “Mary’s Gold,” which is now marigold.

• Hollyhock was once used to make a concoction that reduced the swelling in the ankle, or hock, of a horse.

• “Impatiens” is the Latin word for impatient, referring to the flower’s violent explosion of seeds.

• Primrose means “first rose” in Latin because it appears so early in the season. (continued on next page)

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PLANT NAMES (cont’d) • The hydrangea bush absorbs up to twelve gallons of water per day and its name comes from “hydro,” the Greek word for water.

• The Dutch borrowed the word “tulip” from the French (“tulipan”), who borrowed it from the Turks (“tulbend”), who noted that the shape of the flower reminded them of a “turban.”

• Lilac comes from the Persian word for “blue.”

• Joel Poinsett was a diplomat from South Carolina in the 1800s. While serving in Mexico he collected specimens of a wild shrub and shipped them back to America, where they became known as poinsettias.

• The magnolia was named after French botanist Pierre Magnol who devised the botanical scheme of classification.

• Leonard Fuchs was a botanist who wrote a book about plants in the year 1542. The plant (and the color) fuchsia is named after him.

• The dahlia was named after Swedish botanist Anders Dahl, who was a student of Carl Linnaeus, who devised the modern system of naming organisms.

• Camellia was named by Linnaeus to honor fellow botanist Joseph Kamel.

• Scottish botanist Alexander Garden was honored by having the gardenia named after him.

• The begonia was named to honor Michel Bégon, an official in French King Louis XIV’s court who became governor of Canada.

• Nicotiana is the genus that includes smoking tobacco and flowering tobacco. It is named after Jean Nicot, the French ambassador who introduced tobacco to France.

• Narcissus is named for the Greek god who saw his reflection in a pond and fell in love with himself. The peony is named for Paeon, the Greek physician to the gods.

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Differences 1. Light is missing. 2. Dish is missing.

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5. Cat’s tail is moved. 6. Carved heart is missing.

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