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...gobs of steroids, I tried to start a grassroots movement among other sneezers, wheezers and snifflers. Together, I tried to tell them, we could turn the tide, out law the blue-green mush they used to spread the grass seed. It was hard to relay my message across a barrier of tissues and mucous. My nurse said something about a lost cause, but it was all a drugged haze...
...surprised to find a rise in the rate ofwomen convicted of murder since World War I. The"rhetoric motherhood"--the idea that women who hadmaternal values had more virtue--had become thelast strong barrier between women and jail,Dickenson says. "Women who could be presented asvictimized mothers tended to be acquitted," shesays...
Vanderbilt's move west created a geographical barrier. And the differences between their occupations and lifestyles proved challenging at times, says Bihldorff...
...high-pitched signal lets you know when Junior has wandered more than 35 feet away. If he's not in sight, just push a button and activate the child's homing device. Next: TeenFence, an invisible electronic barrier that keeps teenage daughters in and teenage suitors...
...effect of such a treaty could be striking. Rather than viewing concern about endangered species as a barrier that the industrial world is placing in the way of progress, the developing nations might see biodiversity as a resource that, if properly inventoried and managed, could generate real income. The idea, says Thomas Lovejoy, a tropical ecologist at the Smithsonian Institution, is "to start thinking about the problem as a joint venture in which both sides have property rights...