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• It was windy on the day when ten-year-old Penny Grantz of Niles, Ohio, went into the family’s backyard to amuse herself while her father John, a night-worker, slept inside the house. The family dog, a collie named Duke, accompanied her. But when Penny decided to light a fire, burning papers and flying ashes suddenly ignited her flammable skirt. In flames, the horrified girl ran screaming towards the house. Duke, however, intercepted her. Seizing the burning garment in his teeth, he tore it from her body, throwing to the ground. He barked in THE “X”her FACTOR (continued): alarm, waking John, who rushed Penny to the • Do you suffer from xeroderma? If you have hospital, where she remained for nine weeks. abnormal dryness of the skin, this term applies to you! Duke was treated for burns to his mouth but • From the 16th to the 19th centuries, pirates on recovered. the Mediterranean Sea sailed a small three• Holden, Washington, was a mining town in masted vessel with square and triangular sails 1926 plenty them of ore to trains through thatand enabled sailwent faster than their prospective victims. Depending town every day. Mrs. Moore lived on on the size edgeof the ship, known as a xebec, between 16 and 40 of town near a blind curve that hid oncoming guns might be mounted on the vessel. trains from view. One afternoon her two-year • The word xenia has a variety of meanings. oldToson Richard in the yardthe as concept she hungof the ancientplayed Greeks, it was generosity, and courtesy shown herhospitality, laundry. The family dog, a lanky English to those far Bill, from looked home. on. To Hearing the botanist, pointer named a trainit’s the effect of pollen on a seed. And to those in approaching, Mrs. Mooreseat looked aroundCounty, for Ohio, it’s the county of Greene hera son but couldn’t find him. She continued to community about 21 miles (34 km) from Dayton. search as the train came closer. Suddenly to her • Xystus an architectural term, between referring to horror, she is spied him sitting calmly a long, covered portico, or main entrance, of theancient rails of Greek the tracks. She began running and gymnasiums. Here, athletes screaming but the train was bearing down on would exercise during inclement weather. theand Romans, the she xystus thereach garden theTo child she knew couldwas never walkway in front of the porticoes, where they him in time. The engineer spied the boy and planted flower beds. yanked the whistle hoping to frighten the child • Physicians are familiar with two unusual “X” into moving. He and stood up and began cry, but words, xyster xiphisterna. Thetoxyster is a instrument scraping bones, didsurgical not move from the used tracks.forThen a brown xiphisterna refers toMoore. the cartilage andwhile whitethe streak blazed by Mrs. It wasat the lower end of the body’s sternum, that long Bill. Running full tilt, the dog reached the boy flat bone located at the center of the chest. scant seconds ahead of the locomotive and • The Greek word xanthos translates “yellow,” and several of block our words use it for prefix. delivered a body that knocked thea child Xanthophyll is a yellow pigment found off the tracks and into the ditch beyond. Asalong with cholorophyll in green plants. Plants thewith trainyellow rumbled by, Bill firmly upon stems are sat xanthopous. Tothe those boy’s back, refusing let him move the suffering from theto abnormal visionuntil condition known as xanthopsia, everything see train had passed and the frantic mother they reached seems to have a yellow hue. them. (continued on next page)

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OCEAN SUNFISH (cont’d) • Sunfish eat mainly jellyfish but also consume small fish, plankton, and algae. Their front teeth are fused into a beak-like structure which prevents them from ever closing their mouths, giving them a facial expression of perpetual surprise. • Sunfish often float flat on the surface of the sea, basking in the warmth of the sun. Although they spend most of their time near the surface, they are also capable of diving quite deep, up to 2,600 feet deep (792 m), where the water is quite cold. Keep in mind that the deepest dive ever accomplished by a scuba diver was 1,090 feet (332 m). Sunfish return to the surface to soak up the sun in order to warm up following a deep dive. The warmth also promotes digestion, while giving small fish and even birds a chance to remove abundant parasites from the sunfish by eating them. • Sunfish are slow and gentle and often approach skin divers out of pure curiosity, offering no threat of harm. The only case of a sunfish ever hurting a human being occurred when a sunfish leapt high in the air, a common maneuver meant to dislodge parasites, and landed on a boat, killing a boy. • Their only natural enemies are sea lions, killer whales, and sharks. They are often caught and killed in the unregulated use of gill nets, and some countries consider their meat a delicacy, while other countries ban the consumption of their meat. Some fishermen kill sunfish on sight to prevent them from stealing bait. Sunfish are unregulated worldwide. • By far the greatest enemy of sunfish is plastic trash floating in the ocean, particularly plastic bags, which resemble jellyfish and can clog their intestines, fill their stomachs to the point of starvation, or cause suffocation of these gentle giants.

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