Word: sweated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week a British research team at the University of Warwick announced that it has isolated a steroid in the sweat of males. Highly purified, the substance smells like sandalwood oil, which is used as an ingredient in perfumes. But that is not half its charm. The researchers claim that the steroid is a pheromone, one of a group of chemicals with scents that influence behavior in many species of the animal world. Even better, it is apparently a male sex pheromone, which has a scent that attracts females. Equivalent pheromones exuded by some female insects, for example, draw males...
...RECORDING industry continues to sweat over the fortunes of disco, new wave, "power pop" and various other products of the late 1970s, a few of rock's relics, stumbling awkwardly in the background, dodge extinction and rumble...