Word: mate
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...clan. When R.F.K. ran for President in 1968, Sargent Shriver refused to give up his post as L.B.J.'s ambassador to France to come home and campaign for him. Ted paid him back four years later by objecting to George McGovern's choice of Shriver as a running mate. And when Shriver ran for the Democratic nomination for President in 1976, Ted didn't lift a finger for his brother...
...retinal atrophy, an incurable inherited eye disease that gradually leads to blindness says Geoff Sampson, a geneticist who works for the Kennel Club. But that kind of judging has too often been unrewarding for the dog. In the quest to create the perfect pooch, close relatives will often be mated, sometimes even brother and sister or mother and son. The danger of this practice is that it increases the likelihood that puppies will inherit genetic diseases - some 400 have now been identified in dogs. Most such disorders in dogs are caused by recessive genes; as long as an animal...
...vigorous," says Van Sommeran. The sharks are voracious eaters of seals when they patrol the Red Triangle--a 100-mile strip of California coast from Bodega Bay to Santa Cruz. They have enormous livers to store energy, and can go for months without eating. Nobody has seen great whites mate, but some biologists theorize that after fattening up off the coast, they head into the deep to procreate...
TILL DEATH DO US PART It is what every senior couple dreads--one of the two becomes terminally ill, and the other strains under the grim burden of caring for a dying mate. The stress often takes a physical toll, but these caregivers suffer less depression, lose less weight and take better care of themselves after the death of their spouse than someone whose husband or wife dies suddenly, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Why? The foreknowledge of the death allows the caregiver to grieve as well as prepare for the death. Also...
...truisms combine to create an aura of casual cool that titillates the majority of Americans who don’t really know what a publicist is. The story line consists of the struggles of four upper-middle class, highly fashionable, single, thirty-something women as they balance the perfect mate versus the perfect job, apartment and sex life. A typical episode includes pubic hair grooming and falling in love with your gym instructor...