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Word: watered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Latex condoms decrease the risk of exposure to HIV if used properly; spermicidal foams can also kill the virus. Water-based lubricants make condoms less likely to break...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Question of Myth vs. Reality | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

...name La Nina, Spanish for "the girl," was concocted two years ago to distinguish the "cold event" from El Nino, "the boy" or "Christ child," so named because it usually makes its appearance near Christmastime. Marked by an influx of warm water and winds from the western Pacific, El Nino is known to bring heavy winter rains to Peruvian deserts and warm weather to the U.S. West Coast. The two systems make up the extremes of a giant meteorological system called the Southern Oscillation that links the ocean and atmosphere in the Pacific. Normally the system functions as a giant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Big Chill for the Greenhouse | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

...Government officials or, worse yet, ordered by them to stifle their own concerns, the private contractors who ran the major U.S. weapons plants released huge quantities of radioactive particles into the air and dumped tons of potentially cancer-inducing refuse into flowing creeks and leaking pits, contaminating underground water supplies in a seepage that cannot be stopped. No one knows how many people may have been needlessly afflicted with such ailments as cancer, birth deformities and thyroid deficiencies -- and no one in relevant offices seemed to care. Why? Because a legalistic, bureaucratic shuffle left no one responsible for whatever human...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: They Lied to Us | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

...Drug Store at 29 JFK Street suffered water and smoke damage, said Alexander Goldfine, a clerk at the store...

Author: By Kirsten L. Parkinson, | Title: Fire Causes $ 100,000 In Damage to Eatery | 10/29/1988 | See Source »

Halloween came early for the Harvard men's water polo team last night at Blodgett Pool...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: Aquadudes Dunk MIT in OT | 10/28/1988 | See Source »

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