Word: shrinkly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...size need not remain constant. Studies of tropical fish by Stanford University neurobiologist Russell Fernald reveal that certain cells in this tiny region of the brain swell markedly in an individual male whenever he comes to dominate a school. Unfortunately for the piscine pasha, the cells will also shrink if he loses control of his harem to another male...
...account, the gap between men and women for at least some mental skills has actually started to shrink. By looking at 25 years' worth of data from academic tests, Janet Hyde, professor of psychology and women's studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, discovered that overall gender differences for verbal and mathematical skills dramatically decreased after 1974. One possible explanation, Hyde notes, is that "Americans have changed their socialization and educational patterns over the past few decades. They are treating males and females with greater similarity...
...Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, cautious in his estimates, says he is "reasonably confident" that the weapons are under tight control now, but he worries about the future. "We want to help them shrink their stockpiles," he says...
...charge that his attention begins at the ocean's edge. The President betrayed his worries about such attacks last week when he responded to Buchanan's charges, "We must not pull back into some isolationist sphere, listening to this sirens' call of America first." Protectionism, Bush said, will only "shrink markets and throw people out of work...
Although he is a burly man, he seemed to shrink a bit last week as he posed for pictures beside his charismatic commonwealth partners. While the more publicity-wise Yeltsin and Kravchuk stared straight ahead, Shushkevich, 57, bowed his head, his hands clasped humbly in front of him. Technically he and the other two are equals, but there seems little doubt that he will exercise the least influence...