Word: mates
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...found his enemy sitting in the House lounge with his latest honey, Barbara of my green past. Barbara was giggling and laughing at her scrub-clean mate when Little Joe cuffed him on the back of the neck and told him to apologize. This time, the wolf sent the man scrambling up the tree, tottering uncertainly from a limb...
...smallest island in the harbor, Nix's Mate, as an example of how history-laden the yawning harbor is. Once, it was a few acres of sand and brush. Now it is rocks, and then only at high tide. But from a gallows erected on this small hump of land, nine pirates and mutineers were hung. The last to go was a ship's mate, convicted of mutiny against his captain, Mr. Nix. He reported his innocence to the last, promising those assembled for his execution that were he not guilty, the island would soon sink into...
...develop a new contraceptive, an idea supported by the monkey studies of Monell Primatologist Gisela Epple. She found that the dominant male and dominant female in each social group spend much of their time smearing their scent around the cages. Surprisingly, subdominant females do not get pregnant when they mate with the top male. Epple suspects that a scent signal from the dominant female suppresses the fertility of her rivals...
...theory is based largely on work with laboratory animals. At the University of Vermont College of Medicine, Pharmacologist Lester Soyka and Psychologist Justin Joffe have been administering methadone to male rats a few days before letting them mate with drug "clean" females. Among the adverse effects on the offspring: small litter size, low birth weights and excessive number of deaths among the newborn. Preliminary experiments with morphine, caffeine and the painkiller propoxyphene (Darvon) produced similar patterns...
...start off, they shortened from two years to just four months the time that it usually takes females to mate, lay eggs and hatch their young. How? By cleverly manipulating water temperatures and light exposures within the blockhouses, so the lobsters were duped into thinking they had passed through two full years of seasonal changes when only one-sixth that time had elapsed. Also, because their eggs were released into a controlled environment, free of predators, the survival rate among infants increased to 95%. In addition, by hiking water temperatures to 22° C (72° F), the scientists caused...