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Now, 12 years later, the aviation pioneer is picking cactus spines out of his face, the latest casualty of the world's most pointless competition.
It's named for a virtual-reality game that the characters play with "biopods"--living disk drives that plug into vaginal holes at the base of people's spines.
According to Bremer and Humphries [ 2 ] , the Artemisia -group is monophyletic and defined by heterogamous-disciform capitula (disk florets usually bisexual and fertile, ray florets pistillate) or homogamous-discoid capitula (disk florets usually bisexual and fertile, ray florets absent), pollen with short or no spines (associated with anemophily), and thick-walled cypselas devoid of ribs (sometimes faint ribs are present in Sphaeromeria and Crossostephium ). All of the Artemisia -group genera contain species that have been variously placed within the taxonomic boundaries of Artemisia s.l.
The route from Chaves to Bragança is particularly attractive: the road winds over mountain passes, through pine forests, and past the spines of bare, rocky hillsides.
Books are supposed to have spines.