Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...however, strongly support Hume's greatness on the ground that the force of his personality definitely affected the age in which he lived. It is not a question of the cart before the horse in either case, merely the old problem of which came first, the chicken or the egg. In any case, there is much to be said on both sides...
...Goose Egg: Yale forward Jeff Blaeser and Dartmouth forward Scott Fraser's have rhyming names and both play for pathetic hockey teams. But the two players have something else in common--both have robbed Harvard netminder Chuckie Hughes of a prospective shutout...
While the brawny Bostonian was upset to againsee the opponent's goose egg come and go, therewould be no appeal to the Kangaroo Court this timearound...
Researchers have long known that certain poisons can produce so-called dominant lethal effects in men. In these cases, the sperm is so damaged that it fails either to fertilize the egg or to produce a viable embryo. But little was known about whether toxins could trigger more insidious defects in the sperm -- problems subtle enough to allow the birth of the child but still harmful enough to produce serious malformations. Perhaps the most disturbing recent report concerns lead, which had been shown to impair fetal growth when mothers were exposed while pregnant. At a meeting last month...
...fact, almost 30% of all cycles experienced by the 66 women over a 12- month span were in some way disrupted. The upset was caused either by a failure to ovulate (or produce an egg) or by a shortened "luteal phase," a critical stage of the menstrual cycle during which the hormone progesterone is produced. More important the researchers found that these disturbances were directly related to dramatic bone loss: the 20% who missed ovulation at least once, for example, suffered as much as a 4% reduction in bone density in one year...