Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kerrville. It's a bin full of corn surrounded by specially angled rollers. As deer push in to eat the corn, the rollers coat the animal's head and neck with a pesticide that targets mites and ticks. Pilot studies on 50-acre plots have produced a 95% drop in the local tick population. "What's neat about this is that it's safe for the deer and doesn't involve wholesale spraying," George says. "We're hoping to try this out very soon in the Northeast." It may not seem very sophisticated to the folks in Old Lyme...
Still another spacecraft might be launched to fly by Europa and drop a 20-lb. sphere onto its surface. Striking the frozen crust with the force of a suitcase full of TNT, the cosmic cannonball would release a mushroom cloud of ice particles into space; the mother ship would then fly through the crystalline mist, collect a bit of it and carry it back to Earth for analysis...
...father of three was sentenced to 93 years for growing marijuana in his basement. (That's 70 years for possession alone.) Which suggests that the best strategy for legalizing marijuana might be to criminalize tobacco--and then just wait for the sentences for possession of smokable substances to drop, say, from 93 years in prison to 10 minutes of community service...
POSITIVE PROSTATE FINDINGS In patients whose prostate cancer hasn't spread, the odds of dying from the disease within 10 years drop to less than 5% if the entire gland is surgically removed...
...still responded fervently to the drop, aiming to drive the number of women back up in the short-term and past the historical average in the long...