Medicon Valley; Voyage to Greenland

[Barry Popik]

MEDICON VALLEY

   The Oresund is trying to attract biotech.
   Is Medicon Valley in the OED?

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VOYAGE TO GREENLAND
by Frederica de Laguna
W. W. Norton & Co., NY
1977

   Based on her letters from 1929.  She was a former president of the
American Anthrop. Assoc.

Pg. 50:  The men were dressed in dark blue jackets of cotton cloth,
_anoraks_, with close-fitting hoods, which most of them wore thrown back...

Pg. 50:  All wore _kamiks_, or  waterproof sealskin boots.

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SUMMER IN GREENLAND
by A. C. Seward
Cambridge University Press
1922

Pg. 21:  ...raw porpoise hide (matak) is by no means to be despised--it is
sid to combine a delicate taste of nuts and oysters: a slight acquaintance
with it hardly justifies this opinion.
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