Word: rising
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Breakfast hours have been expanded so that students need not rise at the crack of dawn for those proverbial blueberry pancakes...
Kennedy's descent, like his elder brother's rise to the Presidency more than three decades ago, has been meteoric. The senior senator from Massachusetts has long said he wants to serve in the Senate through the year 2000. Just two years ago, it seemed certain that he would...
...addition to these conclusions about fiscal responsibility, the whole matter also gives rise to a few questions. First, there is the issue of sheer stupidity...
...conference gave rise to numerous collaborations, and participants began trading lab samples with one another and with a growing number of additional interested scientists. "We had gonads flying around the country," says Colborn. As the researchers compared notes, the evidence began to mount. During the mid-1980s, Colborn learned, mortality rates for alligator eggs in Lake Apopka, Florida, soared to 96%, in contrast to 57% in most Florida lakes. The almost certain cause: a 1980 chemical spill that included DDT. In 1993 researchers found that terns in PCB-contaminated Buzzard's Bay, Massachusetts, had reproductive-tract abnormalities including the presence...
When scientists look for hormone disruption in the general population, the evidence is murkier still. Birthrates go up and down for many reasons that have nothing to do with pollution. While there are anecdotal reports that the number of infertile couples is on the rise, the phenomenon could be a result of their waiting too long to try for children. The incidence of testicular cancer is higher than it was two decades ago, but that could be because of better reporting. Even the strongest piece of evidence, a Danish study that seems to document a drop in sperm counts over...