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door prize n. a collision between a bicyclist and a suddenly opened vehicle door. This term seems to be particularly common in Toronto.

1991 Seattle Times (Nov. 5) “Sharing the Road—Bicycle Commuters Are Here to Stay,” p. A21 ! There are reasons why a cyclist might ride “in the middle of the road.” Cyclists don’t always ride right next to the edge of the road for several reasons: a) glass, gravel, potholes, sewer grates, etc., on the side of the road, b) cars nosing out of blind driveways, c) parked cars along the side of the road (it’s no fun to be somebody’s door prize). 1994 Margot Gibb-Clark Globe and Mail

(Toronto, Can.) (May 10) “Middle Kingdom Basics Training: Riding Out the Blacktop Jungle” ! Ride one metre out from the sidewalk or parked cars, not only to avoid road debris or someone suddenly opening a car door (“the door prize”), but because you’ll be better able to manoeuvre to the right in a tight situation. 2005 [transient0] @ Toronto, Can. Kuro5hin (Mar. 19) “A Coder in Courierland” (Int.) ! I was knocked from my bike. My front wheel and shocks were damaged, but i wasn’t. The second time was a door prize. As i rode north up Yonge, someone opened the door of their parked car directly into my path.

doosra n. a cricket delivery bowled in such a way as to spin away from right-handed batsmen. Hindi. India. Pakistan. Slang. Sports. Urdu. [< Hin./Urd. doosra ‘second, other, another’]

1999 (Agence France-Presse) (Nov. 16) “Saqlain Puts Faith in God’s Gift” (in Hobart, Australia) ! Saqlain [Mushtaq], 22, who flicks his thumb and index finger across the seam while keeping his wrist action almost identical to his stock off break, has revolutionised his art with his “doosra.”...) “The Urdu word for it is doosra, first is off spin and second is ‘doosra’ bowl. It’s the same grip but I just use my finger, the same spinning finger and my thumb.” 2003 Michael Atherton Sunday Telegraph (U.K.) (Dec. 7) “Murali a Law unto Himself in Throwing Controversy,” p. 9 ! It is his new delivery, his version of the “doosra,” the one that spits and spins away from the right-hander like a leg-break that has aroused suspicion. 2004 That’s Cricket (India) (May 15) “Howard Feels the Heat of Murali ‘Deliveries’ ” (in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe) (Int.) ! Perth-based biomechanics experts subsequently tested him and initially found he straightened his bent arm by 14 percent in bowling a delivery tagged the “doosra.” The doosra is a delivery which spins away from right-handers instead of coming into them

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like a normal off-break. 2004 Khaled Ahmed Daily Times (Lahore, Pakistan) (May 30) “Muralitharan and ‘Doosra’ ” (Int.) ! Moin Khan shouted doosra because he wanted Saqlain to deliver his disguised leg spin. When he said doosra he used the Urdu word for the other one. The purpose was to hide the instruction from the non-Urdu-speaking batsman.... Doosra in Urdu-Hindi means the other or second. It comes from doh meaning two.

dosia n. marijuana. Drugs. Slang. United States. There appears to be no connection to the detergent of the same name, nor to the Indian food dish, which is usually spelled dosai.

1995 Luniz Operation Stackola (song) (July 3) “I Got 5 on It” ! I’m da roller/that’s quick to fold a blunt out of a buncha sticky dosia/hold up, suck up my weed is all you do. 1999 Usenet: alt.games.cheats

(Nov. 26) “Look at the Golf Ball and Grin!” ! If we could all take the time to educate our children, to avoid smokin’ the dosia, and to better ourselves, this world would be hundreds of times better than it is now. 2000 Usenet: rec.music.hip-hop (Feb. 16) “Dinky (Some L.A. Street Knowledge...)” ! What, you think ’Rips just roll through ’Ru or

Blood hoods and get out they cars, fuck with blood females, hit up, drink, and hit dosia on Damu blocks and Bloods dont react? *2004

[Christopher Abad] Ambient Empire (Calif.) (Nov. 11) “Bay Area Slang” (Int.) ! Dosia n.—The marijuana, the weed, the pot or the hut. So no matter what you call it, grab those zig-zags and roller-up a twamp sack of that dosia.

Dover test n. a determination of what level of military losses, esp. war dead, will be tolerated by voters. Military. Politics. United States.

1994 Michael Ross L.A. Times (Sept. 24) “Pre-Election Battle Over Haiti Shaping Up in Congress Politics,” p. 4 ! As it stands, congressional support for the Haiti mission is too thin “to pass the Dover test,” said Sen. John Glenn (D-Ohio), referring to the Dover, Del., Air Force base where the bodies of any U.S. soldiers killed in Haiti will be flown. 2004 Chris Hall American Narcolepsy (Apr. 26) “A Quick Note on Opinion” (Int.) ! Since Vietnam, you may or may not have heard about the “Dover test,” which a military official coined as the threshold for what Americans could take as acceptable losses to the country, to people, and to the psyche in times of war. Dover Air Force Base in Delaware is the official entry point for America’s war dead. In the first Iraq War, the government banned media outlets from showing any returning deceased at Dover.

drab adj. wearing men’s clothing; dressed as a boy. Also n. Acronym. Fashion. Sexuality. This term can apply to women, but it applies especially to cross-dressing or transvestite men who see

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traditional male clothing as drab, ‘charmless; boring.’ The common explanation of drag in the 1996 citation is a backronym, a fanciful initialism made after the word drag ‘feminine attire worn by a man’ already existed.

1994 Usenet: alt.transgendered (Mar. 3) “Re: Just Some Observations”

! I have worn nothing *but* switchable clothing when out and about in drab for the past 6 months, with no notice. I wear either oxfordcut blouses or women’s turtlenecks, along with slim-fit lady’s Levis and Reebok Princess sneakers. In fact, this has been so successful that part of this weekend’s planned activities is a trip to the Goodwill dropoff place to give away all of my ‘boy’ clothing. 1996 Usenet: rec.org.mensa (Jan. 20) “Re: Reverse Discrimination—No Education for Men” ! “No men at RPI? They must be women in drag then.”...) “That’s ‘drab.’ ” drag: DRessed As a Girl. drab: DRessed As a Boy.

2004 [androgy8] Curiosity Killed the Cat (Calif.) (Dec. 15) “Second Meaning for the Word ‘Drab’ ” (Int.) ! I learned a new word just now: drab. Dressed As a Boy.

Driving While Teen n. an offense said to be committed by teenaged automobile drivers who are pulled over by police for (ostensibly) no reason at all. Also DWT. Automotive. This, like the similar term DWB ‘driving while black,’ is probably a play on DWI ‘driving while intoxicated.’ Another similar term, DWO ‘driving while Oriental’ is a derogatory description of the supposed bad driving habits of Asians.

1998 Usenet: rec.autos.tech (June 12) “Re: Drunken-Driving Penalties”

! “The driver has to drive in a fashion that would cause him to be stopped, intoxicated or not.” “For instance: Scrupulously observing the speed limit. Driving While Teenaged. Driving While Black. Driving While Hispanic.” 1999 G.D. Gearino @ Raleigh, N.C. News & Observer (E1) (Mar. 23) “Why Are Dads Like a Police State?” ! In fact, my daughter is convinced there’s a traffic offense called DWT: driving while teen. 2000 Usenet: alt.business.multi-level (Jan. 7) “Why You Don’t Need...“ ! Ever heard of DWF or DWT? Driving while Female. Driving while a Teenager. Are you aware that these two “minority” groups are more likely to be stopped than are adult white males?

2000 Samantha Morin San Diego Union-Tribune (Calif.) (Mar. 17) “Teenagers: The Discounted Majority,” p. B7 ! How many times have we been stopped on the road for DWT (Driving While Teen-aged)? No matter what guise it appears under, the prevalent message is that teen-agers can’t be trusted. 2003 Reno Gazette-Journal (Nev.) (Feb. 6) “Editorials,” p. 9 ! Is there something else that would make an officer suspicious—”driving while black,” “driving while Hispanic” or even

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“driving while teenage”? 2005 Ben Westhoff Riverfront Times (St. Louis, Mo.) (Jan. 5) “Christopher Young Gives ‘Loop Rats’ Legal Advice—at a Deep Discount” (Int.) ! “That’s the beauty of being seventeen,” explains Young, who coined the acronym DWT, or Driving While Teen. “You’re allowed to screw up, and you still get second chances.”

drown night n. an event offering unlimited alcoholic drinks for a set fee; an all-you-can-drink happy hour. Also drink and drown night. Food & Drink.

1974 Chronicle-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) (Dec. 26) “Big Dick Raps” (in advert.), p. H-3 ! On Sunday my deal is draft beer drink and drown night. My prices are the best in town. 1975 Chronicle-Telegram

(Elyria, Ohio) (Feb. 14) “Big Dick Raps” (in advert.), p. 22 ! Every Sun. my special no rip off deal is 22¢ drink & drown night. 1976

Color Country Spectrum (Saint George, Utah) (Dec. 18) (in advert.), p. 3 ! Thursday Night Drink or Drown Night. 1 Price Covers It All: *Admission* Disco Dancing. All Draft Beer or Mix You Can Drink.

1985 Leo C. Wolinsky L.A. Times (Mar. 7) “Part of Crackdown on Drunk Driving Measure Takes Sober Aim at ‘Happy Hours,’ ” p. 3

! They were motivated to act, they said, in part by the kinds of promotions offered by some bars. Among those, Russell said, was a “drink and drown” night staged by one tavern and another that advertised its happy hour with the slogan, “Come in a car, leave in a coma.” 1989 Ellen Miller @ Woodland Park, Colo. (AP) (Oct. 10) “Flash Cadillac Still Majors in Fun” ! Tulagi’s, a saloon of some note in those years, initially booked Flash Cadillac for a “drown night,” allowing students to drink unlimited amounts of beer for $1.75.

2001 Barbara Allen Tulsa World (Okla.) (Jan. 28) “Are You Ready for

Some Football?” p. 1 ! The post-game show will feature karaoke and a drown night—$7 for all you can drink. 2005 KAUZ-TV (Wichita

Falls, Tex.) (May 9) “Oklahoma Senate to Vote to Ban So-Called ‘Drown Nights’ ” (Int.) ! A bill to ban so-called “drown nights” at beer bars is up for final approval this afternoon in the state Senate. The bill would stop promotions when unlimited amounts of beer are sold at a flat rate.

dry drunk n. a sober person who behaves as if drunk, esp. a recovering alcoholic who displays bad judgment; such behavior. Jargon. United States.

1891 Arizona Republic (Phoenix) (Nov. 17) “A Secret Way of Getting Drunk,” p. 3 ! He has hit upon the “dry drunk” scheme as a way to indulge his appetite without hurting his conscience. He is employed as a porter, and every night before he quits work he takes particular

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pains in cleaning up the wine cellar. He devotes about twenty minutes to smelling the bunghole of a barrel containing a particularly strong brand of cognac, after which he staggers homeward with all the symptoms of a regular “howling jag.” 1957 Morris Kaplan N.Y. Times

(Feb. 24) “Addictions Study Cites ‘Dry Drunk,’ ” p. 58 ! A non-alco- holic drunk—a person intoxicated with his own abstinence—was described here yesterday at a medical meeting.—Dr. Curtis T. Prout labeled such a person a “dry drunk.”—The “dry drunk” was found to have grown almost obsessed with his changed existence. The maintenances of abstinence was associated frequently with a disturbed mind. Dr. Prout pointed out that addiction was characterized by a desire “toward an object and away from it.” 2002 Katherine van Wormer Counterpunch (Oct. 11) “Addiction, Brain Damage and the President” (Int.) ! Dry drunk is a slang term used by members and supporters of Alcoholics Anonymous and substance abuse counselors to describe the recovering alcoholic who is no longer drinking, one who is dry, but whose thinking is clouded. Such an individual is said to be dry but not truly sober. Such an individual tends to go to extremes.

drylabbing n. the faking of laboratory test results, especially when the test has not been conducted. Science.

1986 William H. Meyers N.Y. Times (Dec. 7) “Miracle Merchant”

! University doctors have been known to blackmail drug companies, demanding payoffs for favorable test results. Sometimes they don’t even conduct the tests they have been paid to perform—a process known in the trade as “dry labbing.” 1993 Ullica Segerstrale Contemporary Sociology (July) “Judging the Fudging,” vol. 22, no. 4, p. 498

! This, arguably, begs the question and therefore may be seen by some as defending such practices as “trimming” (moving extreme data points closer to the mean) and “cooking” (selecting the best data), and who knows what other practices, stopping short of total “drylabbing.” 2005 Ralph Blumenthal @ Houston, Tex. N.Y. Times (July 1) “Officials Ignored Houston Lab’s Troubles, Report Finds” (Int.)

! For years, while rain from a leaky roof contaminated evidence in the Houston Police Crime Laboratory.... Officials even failed to take proper action when two laboratory analysts were cited for four instances of fabricating scientific evidence, or drylabbing.

dub n. an automobile wheel measuring twenty inches in diameter. Automotive. Slang. Sports.

[1999 Usenet: alt.auto.mercedes (Dec. 3) “SV: E300D Mysterious Dash Light, Etc.” ! I have Good Year Ultra Grip 400, with dubs, as my win- ter-wheels. Good tires, but i’m not sure you can get these in the US.]

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2000 Usenet: alt.autos.corvette (Sept. 26) “Re: Bigger Wheels on a C5”

! “I was wondering how my c5 would look with 20! wheels on the back and 19! on the front (as appose to 18 in back and 17 in front).” “You’re gonna put your vette on dubs, huh? Cool.” 2004 Denny Lee

N.Y. Times (Apr. 23) “The Dub Generation: Gearheads Go Hip-Hop” (Int.) ! Dub, a niche car magazine,...took its name from street slang for 20—as in a double-dime bag of marijuana—because when it was founded most oversize wheels were 20 inches in diameter.... G.M. became the first big carmaker to cross the 20-inch wheel threshold by unveiling its own line of dub-size rims. 2004 Mike Bresnahan L.A.

! They have no function other than to look hip, their constant-motion appearance helping teens and early 20-somethings achieve status at a time where “dubdeuces” (22-inch wheels) and sparkling, showy rims are part of urban chic.

dub-dub n. a restaurant server or waiter. Food & Drink. United States. [Clipped pronunciation of first letters of waiter and waitress] Possibly specific to the TGI Friday’s restaurant chain.

Pittsburgh Usenet: pgh.food (Apr. 22) “Re: Monterey Bay, General Ranting” ! After the classroom training, you followed a “top

ten” waiter/waitress (w/w—pronounced dub-dub) around for a week before you could even wait a table yourself. *2004 TGI Friday’s (Wat-

ford, U.K.) (Int.) ! Arzu is a “dub-dub” at TGI Friday’s. Derived from the abbreviation for waiter/waitress—“W/W”—“dub-dub.” 2004

INQ7.net (Makati City, Philippines) (May 22) “Minding the (Bar) Business” (Int.) ! Thus when a slot was opened at Alabang where he was a dub-dub (or server in Friday’s lingo), he grabbed the opportunity.

dugout n. a beach-side shelter for surfers. Sports.

2003 Desert Sun (Palm Springs, Calif.) (Aug. 10) “Surfers Allowed to Participate in X Games for the First Time” (in Huntington Beach, Calif.) (Int.) ! Coaches swapped riders from a beach tent “dugout.” Normally chill Florida surfers talked trash with Southern California rivals during lulls in the action. 2004 Mark Conley Santa Cruz Sentinel (Calif.) (May 15) “The Waiting Game: Lousy Surf Greets Team Surfing in Santa Cruz” (Int.) ! “I wish it were better,” said Santa Cruz team member Omar Etcheverry as he pow-wowed with teammates in the so-called “dugout,” a group of chairs perched atop a small scaffolding on the cliffs overlooking the break.

dump truck n. a lawyer seen as too willing to plead cases, especially a public defender. Derogatory. Law. Slang.

1984-1988 Debra S. Emmelman @ Calif. Law & Society Review “Trial by Plea Bargain: Case Settlement as a Product of Recursive Decision-

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making,” vol. 30, no. 2, p. 351 ! Once they realize you’re not resisting their demand to go to trial and their demand that they pay you some attention...then they will drop their resistance to a plea bargain based specifically on you as the dump truck who doesn’t care about them.

1991 Paul M. Barrett Wall Street Journal (A1) (July 26) “Drug Lawyer Offers Feds a Sweet Deal: Crooks Who’ll Fink—One After Another After Another; Then One Client Halts the Ponzi Scheme” ! Mr. Minkin is what some drug lawyers deride as a “dump truck,” an attorney whose clients plead guilty and cooperate. Indeed, the 59-year-old Mr. Minkin says he is “second to none in...knowing how to make deals.”

1993 Clayton Ruby Globe and Mail (Toronto, Can.) (Mar. 23) “Fifth Column; Law and Society,” p. A22 ! dump truck (dump truk) n. Slang. A criminal lawyer who seldom fights a case, but who plea-bargains his way to a fast guilty plea. 1995 Tracey Tyler Toronto Star (Oct. 1) “High-Volume Lawyer Dodges ‘Dumptruck’ Tag,” p. SU2/A1 ! Some lawyers contend that a handful of high-volume practitioners like Stern have bled the Ontario Legal Aid Plan dry by setting up veritable plea factories. They’ve even given them a name: “dumptrucks.” 2001

Bryan A. Garner Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage (Mar. 1) ! Clients often refer to their public defenders as “dump trucks,” a term that apparently derives from the defendants’ belief that defenders are not interested in giving a vigorous defense, but rather seek only to “dump” them as quickly as possible. 2005 Deborah Sontag N.Y. Times

(Mar. 20) “Inside Courts, Threats Become an Alarming Part of the Fabric” (Int.) ! “One of the cruel ironies is that on the tier in any prison, the person most inmates name as responsible for them being there is ‘the dump truck P.D.,’ ” said David Coleman, the public defender in

Contra Costa County, Calif. “Thus, the razor or weapon used against a public defender is all too common.” *2005 Law Office of David Alan

Darby (Tucson, Ariz.) (Mar. 20) “Arizona DUI” (Int.) ! “Dump truck” is what attorneys call other attorneys who mostly just plead their clients guilty, instead of trying cases.

duster n. a dry, non-producing oil-prospecting hole. Jargon.

1881 Democrat (Olean, N.Y.) (Aug. 4) “Allegany Field,” p. 1 ! Wells, rigs, drilling and dusters all appear in greater force than they did in the proceeding [sic] month. The latter class however are not in quite as strong force as the public outside of this field evidently anticipated. Four so-called dusters are paying producers, two of the same being wells of a superior grade, while the two remaining ones will pay a handsome interest on the investment and possibly enable the investort [sic] to lay by something against the proverbial rainy day besides. That this field has been presistantly [sic] discriminated against and the character of its wells purposely misrepresented by the cowardice

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or jealously of outside capital, either or both, cannot be denied. 1906

Times-Democrat (Lima, Ohio) (Sept. 10) “Running River of Oil Fills Ohio Ditches,” p. 3 ! The Ohio Oil company has drilled in a duster in a test on the M. Colter farm, section 35. 1954 Great Bend Daily Tribune (Kan.) (June 20) “Operators End Week with 88 Completions from as Many Starts,” p. 2 ! Stafford County had one pool start, one wildcat duster, a pool completion and a duster in a pool start. 1982

Midge Richards Sunday Oklahoman (June 13) “Legendary Wildcatters Turned Oil Fever into Fortunes” ! These are some of the legendary wildcatters who drilled many a duster and brought in countless great gushers during Oklahoma’s first historic oil boom. 2005 Matt Jenkins

Vail Trail (Colo.) (Jan. 13) “The BLM Wields Fork and Spatula Over the West’s Wildlands” (Int.) ! El Paso Corp. drilled another dry hole— which the industry calls a “duster”—just 200 feet from the six-year old Amoco hole.

DYKWIA n. an abbreviation of “do you know who I am?” said to be used by celebrities or others seeking special privileges. Also attrib. Acronym.

1997 Alan Mcmillan Scottish Daily Record & Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland) (Apr. 21) “A Dutch Out of Order” ! I’m told Ally had lost his voice and was ordering drinks by sign. L for lager, ML for more lager and DYKWIA for do you know who I am? This came in handy if lager was ever refused. And if he was really bad come closing time, he had DYKWIL—do you know where I live? 2000 Usenet: alt.tv.polincorrect (Oct. 8) “Re: Step on the Scale, Bill...“ ! “Bill probably gave the cop the old ‘don’t you know who I am’ routine and pissed him/her off.” “I don’t know how ya’ll respond to DYKWIA in California, but in Nashville, nothing will get you nowhere quicker than that phrase.” 2004 Mike Murdock Reverend Mike’s House of Homilectic Hash (Mar. 9) “Attitude Is Everything” (Int.) ! I’m only speculating here, but given everything else I’ve ever read about Martha, I wonder if she fell victim to DYKWIA Syndrome—“Do you know who I am?” I have relatives in law enforcement, and I could easily imagine their response to such an attitude—“Why, yes I do know who you are, prisoner number 26845.”

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eat up the camera v. phr. in movies, to be appealing or engaging on screen. Entertainment. This term is distinct from eat the camera, which is sometimes said of an actor whose face fills the screen.

1998 Esther Hecht Jerusalem Post (Israel) (Aug. 14) “A Model Child?”

p. 18 ! Beyond looks, a child has to exude personality and a passion for the camera, she says. “They have to eat up the camera.” 2003

Angela Mulholland CTV.ca (Can.) (Nov. 25) “Jim Sheridan Gets Personal ‘In America’ ” (Int.) ! The girls rewarded him with their tremendous talent. They practically eat up the camera when they’re on screen.

2005 Dutch Boyd Because Everybody Pays Their Own Way (Fresno, Calif.) (Apr. 24) “Smoking Cigarettes and Watching Captain Kangaroo” (Int.) ! Both of those guys are great characters and eat up the camera.

2005 Yahoo! News (Apr. 25) “Malik Makes His Screen Debut” (in

India) (Int.) ! Vipul told me that he liked my confidence in Indian Idol, and the way I speak, and the way I eat up the camera. 2005

Native American Times (May 3) “Producers Seeking Some Good-Look- ing Natives” (in Hollywood, Calif.) (Int.) ! Thunder Mountain media is currently conducting a talent search for Native American men and women between the ages of 18 and 50 that, as they say in Hollywood, “eat up the camera.” The producers say they are looking for people who are photogenic.

eco-roof n. a roof planted with vegetation. Environment. Jargon.

1996 Building (Oct. 18) “It’s Turf at the Top,” p. 71 ! Hines argues that there are sound technical reasons to use an eco-roof. “A grass roof protects the roof membrane on flat roofs from extremes of temperature and also blocks ultra-violet light, which helps the membrane last longer,” he says.

2004 Art Chenoweth Daily Vanguard (Port-

land State Univ. [Ore.]) (Apr. 27) “‘Sustainability’ Is the Key” (Int.)

! The eco-roof is a roof that is planted in cactus and other waterretaining vegetation.

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ecotone n. an area where two ecologies meet or overlap. Environment. Jargon. Science.

1906 H.L. Shantz Botanical Gazette (Sept.) “A Study of the Vegetation of the Mesa Region East of Pikes Peak: The Bouteloua Formation. II. Development of the Formation,” vol. 42, no. 3, p. 179 (Int.) ! In most places under natural conditions there seems to be an ecotone, a place of equal aggressiveness, between this formation and the Bouteloua formation. 1982 Ian Mulgrew Globe and Mail (Toronto, Can.)

(Feb. 16) “Seattle Suggests Deal with B.C. Over Flooding of Skagit Valley,” p. P11 ! The Skagit Valley is hailed as a unique ecotone, an area of 1,000-year-old forests where two climatic zones overlap. As a result, plant and animal hybrids are common, all of which would be wiped out by the flooding. *2003 Ecotone: Writing About Place (Int.) ! An ecotone is a term from the field of ecology. It is a place where landscapes meet—like field with forest, or grassland with desert. The ecotone is an area of increased richness and diversity where the two communities commingle. Here too are creatures unique to the ecotone...the so-called “edge effect.”

Ecozoic n. an (imaginary) era in the future when humans live in harmony with nature and the Earth. Also adj. Environment. [This term was popularized and probably coined by Thomas Berry. From Greek oikos ‘house’ + zoikos ‘of animals.’]

1991 Thomas J. Billitteri @ Saint Leo St. Petersburg Times (Fla.) (May 18) “Defenders of Nature” ! In [Rev. Thomas] Berry’s view, the planet is moving out of the 65-million-year Cenozoic era, during which the major developments of life occurred, into a new uncertain age he calls the Ecozoic. “The major developments of the Cenozoic took place entirely apart from any human intervention,” he says. “In the Ecozoic the human will have a comprehensive influence on almost everything that happens.” 1992 Thomas Berry Art Journal

(Summer) “Art in the Ecozoic Era,” vol. 51, no. 2, p. 46 (Int.) ! To reestablish the Earth in a viable situation requires a transition from the terminal Cenozoic era to what might be called the Ecozoic era.

2001 Rich Heffern National Catholic Reporter (Mar. 16) “Spinners Weave Wisdom Ways,” vol. 37, no. 20, p. 16 ! In Vermont, Sr. Gail Worcelo and lay associate Bernadette Bostwick, together with their community of Passionist nuns, are starting an Ecozoic Monastery in the Green mountains. They hope to soon found the first Catholic community of nuns in the world dedicated to healing the Earth.

*2004 Center for Ecozoic Studies (Nov. 7) “Ecozoic Era” (Int.) ! The term the “Ecozoic Era” refers to the promise of a coming era when humans live in a mutually enhancing relationship with the larger

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