Word: ated
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...Wildlife Fund who did a study on the reproductive health of Great Lakes wildlife in the late 1980s. Colborn discovered that the young of 16 predator species, including fish, birds, reptiles and mammals, were failing to survive to adulthood or could not reproduce if they did. All the animals ate fish from the Great Lakes, which were contaminated with a variety of hormone-like chemicals...
Born to poor farmers in central Cuba, Rodriguez credits the revolution with improving her life. As one of 12 brothers and sisters on a marginal farm in the 1950s, she almost never ate meat. Her brothers worked the sugarcane fields three months a year, then the family virtually starved the other nine months during the farmers' traditional tiempo muerto, or dead time. Her whole family turned out when rebel Camilo Cienfuegos passed through on his way to fight the dictator Fulgencio Batista...
...only half an hour earlier. "You need a rest," he told her, promising a stay of several weeks. Instead she spent two years in a "parallel universe," a sorority house of sorts, but with barred windows, a ban on sharp objects and constant monitoring. "We ate with plastic," writes Kaysen of McLean. "It was a perpetual picnic, our hospital." After leaving in 1969, Kaysen continued to resist college, becoming a copy editor and eventually a self-educated writer. She also learned to live with her own distinctive personality. "There's a great, long literary tradition of being off your rocker...
...great and wonderful he is by a phalanx of yes-men and supporters, so his sense of self-justification is so much stronger. In O.J.'s mind and in his so- called suicide note, he is the victim." Before this is over, Nicole will be the bitch who ate Brentwood and asked for everything she got. As for O.J? He was only human...
...learned that the germ had caused a mini-outbreak of lethal infections in Gloucestershire last month, bringing the death toll in England and Wales for this particularly virulent form of strep to 11 for the year. The papers fanned fears with such headlines as EATEN ALIVE and KILLER BUG ATE MY FACE. And when a handful of cases, including at least one death, were reported in the U.S. last week, the coverage, particularly on TV, was only a little more subdued. Just about everyone was suddenly talking about the killer bug that destroys human flesh, and some wondered whether...