tundra

With the exception of our little cove, the other beaches sloped gently back for a distance of half-a-mile or so, into what I might call rocky meadows, with here and there patches of moss and tundra grass.

The great world had never heard his name, but it was known far and wide in the vast silent North, by whites and Indians and Eskimos, from Bering Sea to the Passes, from the head reaches of remotest rivers to the tundra shore of Point Barrow.

Nine men out of ten would flee from a Royal Society soiree in extremity of boredom; but Creighton was the tenth, and at times his soul yearned for the crowded rooms in easy London where silver-haired, bald- headed gentlemen who know nothing of the Army move among spectroscopic experiments, the lesser plants of the frozen tundras, electric flight-measuring machines, and apparatus for slicing into fractional millimetres the left eye of the female mosquito.

tundra infection expressed decreased thriftiness, poor body condition, and undeveloped winter coat.

On the Arctic's frozen tundra, an outcast and her adopted daughter struggle to survive, but life gets more complicated when a man enters their lives.

Tundra Semiconductor Corporation (TSX:TUN), Ottawa, a leader in System Interconnect, has announced the Tundra Tsi577(TM) Serial RapidIO(R) Switch.

In Janet Raloff's article "Forest invades tundra" (SN: 7/5/08, p.

And that's good news for fans of "Tundra," the Guest Comic that we have been testing since the beginning of March.

That chore certainly is made easier by the Stadium Hat from Tundra Gear, Santa Monica, Calif., a company that has snagged Aras Baskauskas--winner of "Survivor: Panama-Exile Island" as its spokesman.

That bias has diminished over time, but this year Toyota looks to knock the smirk off the face of every skeptic with the Tundra.

has expanded incentives on its new Tundra pickup truck to take a greater share in the full-size U.S.