Word: littered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...biological basis of sexual orientation. Through careful manipulation of hormone levels in newborn rats, Roger Gorski, a neuroendocrinologist at UCLA, has been able to produce male rodents that demonstrate feminine behavior. Other researchers, working with mice, have noted that female fetuses that develop between two male fetuses in a litter appear to be masculinized to some degree by their brothers' testosterone. They look more like males than females, mature more slowly, have fewer reproductive cycles as adults and are less attractive to male mice...
...times past, putting up with litter, noxious fumes and bad manners seemed an acceptable price to pay for the revenue tourism brought in and the jobs it created. A big business it is too. In Britain the tourist industry contributed $39 billion to the economy last year. Italy took in $21 billion. France, the world's second most favored destination after the U.S., collected $17.7 billion from tourism, more than it earned from agriculture or arms. For poorer countries like Greece, tourism is the main source of foreign exchange, so a drop in the number of visitors, which is feared...
According to the first approach, universities should be taxed only as much as the amount of services they receive from the city without remuneration, such as fire protection, sewer maintenance, litter removal and snow removal...
Leder says the female would give birth to a litter of mice, some of whom will have taken up that gene...
...first-name basis with many of the area's 700 residents and learn what neighborhood problems concerned them most. Those conversations led him to recognize, he says, "that the good people far outnumbered the bad." Meanwhile, he organized a volunteer community cleanup, which filled 30 Dumpsters with litter; arranged federal funding for floral plantings; and even held a contest to choose a name for the neighborhood: Sparrow Estates...