Word: mice
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...made some discoveries. Scientists managed to produce a perfect copy of the muscular dystrophy gene in mice. A study by the American Bar Association found that white males get the best car deals. Some biblical scholars concluded that Jesus never said about 80% of the things the New Testament says he said. A retired Wisconsin couple learned that the oil painting that had hung in their living room for 30 years was a Van Gogh. And it turns out that if you run about a mile and a half every day, you get fewer head colds...
High-Scoring Zebra: Pierre Belanger now expects to hear the catcalls and the "Three Blind Mice" tune when he takes to the ice as an ECAC official. But it was not always that...
...turnover among rural teachers is high. Pine Grove went through four in 1978 alone, including one man who was bothered by the presence of mice. The educators must endure Montana's brutal winters in isolation, usually in tiny quarters attached to their schoolhouses. Nor is there much excitement in town except the Hell Creek Bar. Salaries are low. Savage, a widowed 22-year veteran of six rural Montana schools, makes $14,000 annually after six years at Pine Grove. "You've got to love what you're doing," she says. Then she rings her brass school bell out the front...
...look of this movie is not idly chosen. It functions to reinforce the comic resourcefulness and astonishing gumption of its cast. The world is so large, and they are so tiny -- notably the title characters, Bernard and Miss Bianca, top operatives of the International Rescue Aid Society, but mice all the same. They are straight arrows, but their supporting menagerie includes a full range of furry, feathery and scaly scamperers, caperers, klutzes, all delightfully addled, all in constantly inventive motion...
Osteoporosis can be triggered in young women by disturbances in the menstrual cycle, according to a controversial report. -- Scientists make mice more like...