Word: cottons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...their fans' deportment that amazed the country, so used to New York City trashing its stadium or Detroit setting fire to the neighborhood. From the first game to the last, both won by the series' MVP Frank Viola, Minnesotans were content to twirl cotton hankies for Kirby Puckett and to blow tin whistles at the Cardinals. Gracious winning was the story of the year in baseball. When Minnesota finally won something, it knew...
Environmentalist groups say they want the land protected because it is home to several endangered species including the Key Largo wood rat, the American crocodile, the Schaus butterfly, and the cotton mouse. The Key Largo parcel also is adjacent to the only living coral reef in North America, which environmentalists say could be killed by runoff from development...
...center's work is in no way restricted to AIDS research, however. Hunt cites another project with implications for the care of delicate animals in captivity--an effort to determine why captive cotton-top tamarinds--an endangered species--often suffer from ulcerative colitis, a disease that can lead to cancer of the colon. The center has received an NIH grant to study this tendency in about 80 of the monkeys. He says it is not known whether this condition exists in the wild...
...course of the experiment, Hunt says, the animals will not be operated on. They will receive varying levels of fat in their diets, and will be examined and treated by veterinarians. Some young cotton-tops, he says, will be raised away from their parents, to see whether they develop the disease...
Efforts to contain Lyme disease are under way. In an attempt to disrupt the tick's life cycle, Harvard researchers have developed cardboard tubes containing insecticide-treated cotton that attract nesting mice and keep them bug-free. Meanwhile, work has begun on a vaccine and a urine test that may provide earlier diagnosis than the current blood test. Until a vaccine is available, however, the best protection is wearing long pants tucked into socks when walking in brushy areas -- or even in the backyard...