Word: shores
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...blood-pressure drug may do double duty as a male contraceptive. Researchers at North Shore University Hospital on Long Island, New York, have discovered that nifedipine also disables the membrane of the sperm, preventing it from binding to an egg and fertilizing it. The effect is reversible and apparently does not cause impotence. Next step: figuring out if the drug will work as a contraceptive in all men, whether or not they suffer from high blood pressure...
Sources-Good: National Institutes of Health; North Shore University Hospital. BAD: New York State Health Department; Journal of the American Medical Association...
.../gill-net type of net used to catch salmon, net is anchored between the shore and a point offshore, fish swim into the net and are caught...
...relationships that ought to exist between people, some anxiety or some trouble. This is indeed reflected in "La dolce vita." For Fellini ends the film on the beach, where the drunken party finds its end. All the partygoers stare down at a dead fish prone on the shore, its glassy eyes staring out, but at nothing. Marcello looks over and sees an innocent and angelic girl whom he met while taking his interim from journalism, and she tries to communicate with him from the far side of an inlet stream but they cannot hear each other over the waves...
...dust raised from collapsing buildings. Church bells clanged by themselves, until they fell out of their towers. The tremors could be felt as far away as Scotland. Soon the fires broke out. Some flames were doused by the tidal wave, which reared 30 ft. high and crashed to the shore, drowning survivors who had not been crushed or burned. Once the water receded the looters came, including the inmates and galley slaves of the local prisons, plundering anything worth saving and killing anyone who interfered. "What a wretched gamble is the game of human life!" wrote the French philosopher Voltaire...