Word: strains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Behind his devil-may-care lightheartedness, however, runs a strain of innate wisdom, an instinct about people and an unwavering loyalty that makes him the one friend you would turn to, not just because he's a drinking buddy who'll keep you laughing, but because, well, he's a good...
...crimson-and-white 28-ft. motor home are a fixture at Alabama games. Friends, former players, curious passers-by stop by for drinks as Superfan grills pregame steaks. Says Brandino: "Football is a passion around which we order our lives. We make friendships over football and we strain friendships. But mostly, football holds us together-especially when we beat one of those big Northern schools." On this year's schedule: Notre Dame. Roll, Tide...
...past 40 years. The city of Nashville still produces its vanilla-shake love ballads with comforting monotony. Down in Austin, Texas, the country-rock cantatas of Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings are as popular as ever. No single style or performance can typify all of country music. But one strain of country is something old and new called honkytonk. It is both a style and a place, and of the place it used to be said that "honky-tonks were where a white man could get killed by his own kind while listening to country music." To keep track...
...Zoologist Raymond W. Neck of the Texas parks and wildlife department, found that the larvae were kept at an unnaturally constant, warm temperature, mainly to speed up growth. Also, young flies were unable to fly around much in their cages. Eventually, the researchers write in Science, a markedly different strain emerged. No longer as vigorous, the male does not become active until the heat of afternoon, whereas his wild brethren are busy impregnating females from early morning until late afternoon, keeping the species alive and well...
...finding them less attractive. In any case, future factory-bred males may be more formidable sexual competitors. The Texas factory and a large new breeding plant formally opened last month under a joint U.S.-Mexican commission in Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico, are now producing a more aggressive fly strain, tagged 009. Explains a commission spokesman: "He is a macho Mexican fly, and factory breeding should not dilute his sex drive...