Word: caged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...facing a King Kong escaped from its cage, destroying and smashing without orientation or control...
...then, who wants to hike past a sign saying YOU ARE ENTERING CHIPMUNK COUNTRY? In South Africa people pay to get lowered into the brine in a shark cage, just for the thrill of cringing as the great whites go leering by. Maybe it's character building to be reminded that we aren't the only predators on the planet, that we're pretty puny ones, in fact, compared with those that do their meat-processing without the aid of metal implements. Maybe, if there were no bears to cull the human population, the wilderness would be overrun by AARP...
...their young, according to a study reported in the journal Cell. When scientists at the Children's Hospital in Boston bred a mutant mouse lacking the so-called motherhood gene, the mother ignored her babies after delivering them, preferring to curl up by herself in the corner of the cage. Without the mother to keep them warm, the babies soon died. The gene, known as fosB, is probably activated by the sight and smell of baby mice and sets off a host of other chemical and behavioral reactions. Mouse mothers with the fosB gene will hunker down over their young...
...their young, according to a study reported in the journal Cell. When scientists at the Children's Hospital in Boston bred a mutant mouse lacking the so-called motherhood gene, the mother ignored her babies after delivering them, preferring to curl up by herself in the corner of the cage. Without the mother to keep them warm, the babies soon died. The gene, known as fosB, is probably activated by the sight and smell of baby mice and sets off a host of other chemical and behavioral reactions. Mouse mothers with the fosB gene will hunker down over their young...
...distance swimming tended to be for second place. In the last 30 or 35 m of a cruelly arduous race, against the best the world could send her, she would surge ahead unbelievably, often swimming the remaining distance without breathing. She was an aerobic marvel whose skinny rib cage could expand a full 6 in.--two or three more than that of other women team members...