Fourteen hours after their initial descent, the two tree-sitters, a male and a female who goes by the name "Olive, " left their tree-top roosts after speaking with Celaya.

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Getting its name from the sassafras tree root originally responsible for its unique flavour, root beer was an exclusively North American beverage until recently.

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His pseudonym Araucaria is the Latin name for monkey puzzle tree.

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The company name Apple fell from a tree, dropping right into Jobs' vision of what a computer should be--simple and approachable.

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The movie, The Learning Tree, was based on his 1963 autobiographical novel of the same name.

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It starts as an exit off the Dumbarton Bridge, which cuts across the southern edge of San Francisco Bay, runs though rough-and-tumble East Palo Alto, then tree-lined stretches dotted with multimillion-dollar mansions, and eventually hits, as the name implies, the Stanford campus.

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The drug is Taxol, Bristol's brand name for paclitaxel, a trace compound found in the bark of the Pacific yew tree in the northwestern U.S. During the 1970s researchers for the U.S. government's National Cancer Institute discovered that paclitaxel stops the growth of some cancerous tumors.

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As its name suggests, this spins the software equivalent of a roulette wheel to generate a random tree, then examines how snugly the branches of that tree fit the modern foliage.

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For example, by far the most famous tree scientist of modern times operates out of Hsu (Humboldt State University) in an endowed chair under my name and money.

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