Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...interviewing for jobs may not have been the wisest move ever, but I had to do it. It was partially due to how I still want to be Angela (Claire Danes) from "My So-Called Life." But it was mainly because of Women's Studies 132: "Shop 'Till You Drop...
Across the country, ski areas are getting wilder. New York's Whiteface Mountain recently opened the Slides, hundreds of feet of treeless, sheer rock face atop the East Coast's highest vertical drop. The Mount Hood Meadows resort in Oregon runs a Sno-Cat tractor so that skiers and boarders can move 1,000 ft. higher to reach an in-bounds canyon that offers 55[degree]-angle chutes (90[degrees] is vertical...
...more prone to such diseases as osteoporosis. Women produce testosterone, and may even need it for sexual arousal. But despite its reputation as the roughneck's Power Bar, scientists can find no clear-cut relationship between testosterone levels and aggressiveness. Angier reports that men's testosterone levels actually drop before certain challenges like parachuting or, to judge from Saving Private Ryan, landing at Normandy. So whatever the molecular motives of estrogen and testosterone, sorting hospital nurseries into pink and blue sections may not be foremost among them...
Advances in diagnostic exams and hormone treatments have drastically cut the incidence of cancer of the uterus, ovaries and cervix over the past five decades. Pap smears that detect abnormal cells in the cervix before they become malignant have contributed to a 75% drop in cervical cancer since the 1950s. Wider use of birth control pills and hormonereplacement therapy (with estrogen and progestin) have decreased the risk of ovarian and uterine cancers. Recent research also suggests that in some cases, a low-fat diet can cut the risk of cervical cancer even further...
Weyrich, who says he was the one who invented the phrase moral majority, has concluded from the recent unpleasantness that people who believe what he believes are no longer in the majority, and that their only choice is to drop out of a culture that has become an "ever wider sewer...