Word: petted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dressers, true transsexuals are rare. By some estimates, no more than 1 person in 350,000 believes he or she was born the wrong gender. Moreover, the portion of the brain that seems to be different in transsexuals is smaller than a pinhead. Even advanced imaging techniques, like the pet scan or mri, cannot detect such tiny variations. To do their research, the Dutch team, led by Dr. Dick Swaab, had to dissect the brains of transsexuals in autopsies and examine them under a microscope. Little wonder, then, that it took Swaab's team 11 years to find transsexual candidates...
...finally, the grandaddy of all my pet peeves, the little annoyance that sends shivers of frustration up and down my spine...
AMERICORPS Mixing business with pleasure, Senate kills Clinton's pet program...
...backed candidates are promoting their own pet projects, as well. Duehay said he will fight to maintain the city-wide Cambridge Hospital network, to create a preservationist Harvard Square Historic Business District and to monitor cleanup of a chemical pollution site threatening the Cambridge water supply...
...Senate will not be enough. Simply ignoring child-care needs, as the Republican bill did initially, seems punitive and cruel, especially when the jobs are dead-end and low wage. At the Fairfax County, Virginia, welfare office, the few positions listed on the bulletin board last week ranged from pet grooming to newspaper delivery (report at 4 a.m., not a great time to get a baby sitter) to child care, all at minimum wage. Only when you're looking after other people's children--and leaving your infant in a group day-care center--does mothering qualify as work...