Word: decid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Homer, Herodotus and Plato, followed by the Bible, Shakespeare, Machiavelli, Hobbes and Milton. In the second year, students turned to early American thought, the Federalists and John Locke, moved up to contemporary U.S. writers, ended with urban problems. The program carried credits but no grades or examinations; when teachers decid ed that a student was not benefiting, they simply let him join conventional classes. Of the first 150 students, 60 failed to complete the program...
First countermeasure tried by the fishes' human allies was electrical barriers across stream mouths to keep mature lampreys from swimming upstream to spawn. But many streams were already packed with growing larvae from lamprey eggs, so the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Canadian Department of Fisheries decid ed to destroy the larvae themselves. In search of a selective lamprey-larva poison, they tried more than 6,000 different chemicals on jars containing two lamprey lar vae, two bluegill fingerlings and two small rainbow trout. Some chemicals killed nothing; some killed both larvae and fish. Some killed...
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