Studying the fruit fly, a household nuisance but a time-honored experimental subject, has enabled… Posted on February 28, 2019
Unlike most severance packages, which require workers to stay until the last day scheduled to collect… Posted on February 28, 2019February 28, 2019
According to a 1996 survey by the National Association of College and University Business Officers, more… Posted on February 28, 2019
In archaeology, there must be a balance between explanation of the value and workings of archaeology… Posted on February 28, 2019
Unearthed in China, fossils of feathered dinosaurs offer the most dramatic evidence yet discovered… Posted on February 28, 2019
The steel industry has changed radically over the last two decades, as large, integrated companies such as Bethlehem… Posted on February 28, 2019
Birds known as honey guides exhibit a unique pattern of behavior: the bird leads another animal, such as a… Posted on February 28, 2019February 28, 2019
At an orientation meeting, the travelers were told that a visa, a landing card, and evidence of inoculation… Posted on February 28, 2019
Unlike the short flights of the shuttle and earlier spacecraft, which carried sufficient power in fuel cells and… Posted on February 28, 2019
In January 1994 an oil barge ran aground off the coast of San Juan, Puerto Rico, leaking its cargo… Posted on February 28, 2019
Galileo did not invent the telescope, but on hearing, in 1609, that such an optical instrument had been made… Posted on February 28, 2019
Humans have been damaging the environment for centuries by overcutting trees and farming too intensively… Posted on February 28, 2019
For the farmer who takes care to keep them cool, providing them with high-energy feed, and milking… Posted on February 28, 2019
Turning away from literary realism to write romantic stories about the peasant life and landscape… Posted on February 28, 2019
Currently 26 billion barrels a year, world consumption of oil is rising at a rate of 2 percent annually. Posted on February 28, 2019
Giuseppe Alessi, a world-class chef whose life has been a search for the genuine and the delicious in Florentine… Posted on February 28, 2019
A Swiss government panel recommended that the country sell about half its gold reserves and this… Posted on February 28, 2019
As the honeybee ’s stinger is heavily barbed, staying where it is inserted, this results in the act of stinging… Posted on February 28, 2019
Although she had been known as an effective legislator first in the Texas Senate and later in the United… Posted on February 28, 2019February 28, 2019
According to public health officials, in 1998 Massachusetts became the first state in which more… Posted on February 28, 2019
Some scientists contend that many species of dinosaur had a metabolism more like a warm-blooded… Posted on February 27, 2019
After more than four decades of research and development, a new type of jet engine is being tested that… Posted on February 27, 2019
Socially and environmentally responsible investing is on the rise: last year in the United States, over… Posted on February 27, 2019
In an effort to reduce the number of fires started by cigarettes, a major tobacco company is test- marketing a… Posted on February 27, 2019
In Hungary, as in much of Eastern Europe, an overwhelming proportion of women work, many of which… Posted on February 27, 2019
Scholars who once thought Native American literatures were solely oral narratives recorded… Posted on February 26, 2019
Imported into Massachusetts from Europe in 1869, the gypsy moth was used by a French… Posted on February 26, 2019
Most of the purported health benefits of tea comes from antioxidants— compounds also found… Posted on February 26, 2019
For the last five years the Dutch economy has grown faster than Britain, France, or Germany… Posted on February 26, 2019
For the first time in the modern era, non-Hispanic Whites are officially a minority in California… Posted on February 26, 2019February 26, 2019
Despite the growing number of people who purchase plane tickets online, airline executives are… Posted on February 26, 2019February 26, 2019
Analyzing campaign expenditures, the media has had as a focus the high costs and low ethics of campaign… Posted on February 26, 2019February 26, 2019
According to a survey of graduating medical students conducted by the Association of American… Posted on February 26, 2019February 26, 2019
When drive-ins were at the height of their popularity in the late 1950’s, some 4,000 existed in… Posted on February 26, 2019February 26, 2019
A New York City ordinance of 1897 regulated the use of bicycles, mandated a maximum speed… Posted on February 26, 2019February 26, 2019
Not only did the systematic clearing of forests in the United States create farmland… Posted on February 26, 2019February 26, 2019
Fossils of a whale that beached on an African shore more than a million years ago and… Posted on February 26, 2019February 26, 2019
There are no legal limits, as there are for cod and haddock, on the size of monkfish that can… Posted on February 26, 2019February 26, 2019
An advertising agency must leave its office building. To save overhead costs, it is considering setting… Posted on February 26, 2019February 26, 2019
A new commercial radio station in Greenfield plans to play songs that were popular hits fifteen to… Posted on February 26, 2019February 26, 2019
For the past several years, a certain technology has been widely used to transmit data among… Posted on February 26, 2019February 26, 2019
A new machine for harvesting corn will allow rows to be planted only fifteen inches apart… Posted on February 26, 2019February 26, 2019
Economist: On average, the emergency treatment for an elderly person for injuries resulting from… Posted on February 26, 2019February 26, 2019
The prairie vole, a small North American grassland rodent, breeds year-round, and a group of… Posted on February 26, 2019February 26, 2019
According to a widely held economic hypothesis, imposing strict environmental regulations reduces… Posted on February 26, 2019February 26, 2019
Sonya: The government of Copeland is raising the cigarette tax. Copeland’s cigarette prices will still… Posted on February 26, 2019February 26, 2019
A manufacturer of workstations for computer-aided design seeks to increase sales to its most important… Posted on February 26, 2019February 26, 2019
Excavations of the Roman city of Sepphoris have uncovered numerous detailed mosaics depicting several… Posted on February 26, 2019February 26, 2019
Following several years of declining advertising sales, the Greenville Times reorganized its advertising… Posted on February 26, 2019February 26, 2019
Radio stations with radio data system (RDS) technology broadcast special program information that… Posted on February 26, 2019February 26, 2019
Paper&Print is a chain of British stores selling magazines, books, and stationery products. In… Posted on February 26, 2019February 26, 2019
In polluted environments, dolphins gradually accumulated toxins in their body fat, and the… Posted on February 26, 2019February 26, 2019
Whales originated in the freshwater lakes and rivers of ancient Asia about sixty million years ago… Posted on February 26, 2019February 26, 2019
Electronic computer chips made of tiny silicon wafers now regularly contain millions of electronic… Posted on February 26, 2019February 26, 2019
People who have spent a lot of time in contact with animals often develop animal-induced allergies, some of them quite serious… Posted on February 26, 2019February 26, 2019
A medieval manuscript called L contains all eighteen extant tragedies by the Greek playwright Euripides. Of these, ten called the… Posted on February 26, 2019February 26, 2019
Mel: The official salary for judges has always been too low to attract the best Candidates to the job. The legislature’s move to raise… Posted on February 26, 2019February 26, 2019
Appendicitis (inflammation of the appendix) is potentially fatal; consequently, patients with symptoms strongly suggesting appendicitis almost have their… Posted on February 26, 2019February 26, 2019
The total market value of real estate in Altonville has steadily declined over the past four years. This decline… Posted on February 26, 2019February 26, 2019
The town of Enderton is located in an area where forest fires are quite common. During dry periods and periods of persistent winds… Posted on February 26, 2019February 26, 2019
Tourists have long complained that hotel accommodations in Midville are too expensive. Starting last year, the city council, hoping to attract… Posted on February 26, 2019February 26, 2019
The violent crime rate (number of violent crimes per 1,000 residents) in Meadowbrook is 60 percent higher now than it was four years ago…. Posted on February 26, 2019February 26, 2019
In 1992 outlaw fishing boats began illegally harvesting lobsters from the territorial waters of the country of Belukia. Soon after… Posted on February 26, 2019February 26, 2019
Since February, the Federal Reserve has raised its short-term interest rate target five times, and because of the economy’s… Posted on February 25, 2019
Only seven people this century have been killed by the great white shark, the man-eater of the movies—less than those killed… Posted on February 25, 2019
The first commercially successful drama to depict Black family life sympathetically and the first play by a Black woman to be… Posted on February 25, 2019
The fact of some fraternal twins resembling each other greatly and others looking quite dissimilar highlights an interesting and often… Posted on February 25, 2019
In California today, Hispanics under the age of eighteen account for more than 43 percent, compared with a decade ago, when it… Posted on February 25, 2019
Many entomologists say that campaigns to eradicate the fire ant in the United States have failed because the chemicals that… Posted on February 25, 2019February 25, 2019
Although the restaurant company has recently added many new restaurants across the country and its sales… Posted on February 25, 2019February 25, 2019
Today’s technology allows manufacturers to make small cars more fuel-efficient now than at any time… Posted on February 25, 2019February 25, 2019
Competition in the mid-nineteenth century by large western farms gradually caused farmers in Pennsylvania to turn to livestock raising, but before that it was predominantly grain-producing. Posted on February 25, 2019February 25, 2019
Leaching, the recovery of copper from the drainage water of mines, as a method of the extraction of minerals… Posted on February 25, 2019February 25, 2019
The ancient Anasazi harvested such native desert vegetation as the purple-flowered bee plant, what they now commonly call wild spinach… Posted on February 25, 2019February 25, 2019
That twenty-one ceramic dog figurines were discovered during the excavating of a 1,000- year-old… Posted on February 25, 2019February 25, 2019
In one state, all cities and most towns have antismoking ordinances. A petition entitled “Petition for Statewide Smoking Restriction” is… Posted on February 25, 2019February 25, 2019
In Berinia, the age at which people could begin to drink alcohol legally used to be 18. In 1990, in an attempt to reduce alcohol… Posted on February 25, 2019February 25, 2019
The OLEX Petroleum Company has recently determined that it could cut its refining costs by closing its Grenville refinery and…. Posted on February 25, 2019February 25, 2019
TrueSave is a mail-order company that ships electronic products from its warehouses to… Posted on February 25, 2019February 25, 2019
A recent poll found that over 80 percent of the residents of Nalmed Province favored a massive expansion… Posted on February 25, 2019February 25, 2019
Kernland imposes a high tariff on the export of unprocessed cashew nuts in… Posted on February 25, 2019February 25, 2019
Each year red-winged blackbirds stop in a certain region of Midland Province on… Posted on February 25, 2019February 25, 2019
Frobisher, a sixteenth-century English explorer, had soil samples from Canada’s… Posted on February 25, 2019February 25, 2019
Aroca County’s public schools are supported primarily by taxes on the property. The county… Posted on February 25, 2019February 25, 2019
The Earth’s rivers constantly carry dissolved salts into its oceans. Clearly, therefore, by taking… Posted on February 25, 2019February 25, 2019
FastMart, a convenience store chain, is planning to add pancake syrup to the items it sells.. Posted on February 25, 2019February 25, 2019
People with a certain eye disorder are virtually unable to see in moderately bright light, which seems to them unbearably intense since.. Posted on February 25, 2019February 25, 2019
Mayor: Migrating shorebirds stop at our beach just to feed on horseshoe-crab eggs.. Posted on February 25, 2019February 25, 2019
Agricultural societies cannot exist without staple crops. Several food plants, such as kola and okra.. Posted on February 25, 2019February 25, 2019
Editorial in Krenlandian Newspaper: Krenland’s steelmakers are losing domestic sales because of lower-priced imports.. Posted on February 25, 2019February 25, 2019
Printwell’s Ink Jet Division manufactures ink-jet printers and the ink cartridges they use.. Posted on February 25, 2019February 25, 2019
Certain politicians in the country of Birangi argue that a 50 percent tax on new automobiles.. Posted on February 25, 2019February 25, 2019
Three large companies and seven small companies currently manufacture a product with potential military applications.. Posted on February 25, 2019February 25, 2019
Healthy lungs produce a natural antibiotic that protects them from infection by routinely killing harmful bacteria on airway surfaces.. Posted on February 25, 2019February 25, 2019
In Teruvia, the quantity of rice produced per year is currently just large enough to satisfy domestic demand.. Posted on February 25, 2019February 25, 2019
From 1980 to 1989, total consumption of fish in the country of Jurania increased by 4.5 percent, and total consumption of poultry products there increased by 9.0 percent.. Posted on February 25, 2019February 25, 2019
Two centuries ago, Tufe Peninsula became separated from the mainland, isolating on the newly formed Tufe Island a population of Turfil sunflowers.. Posted on February 25, 2019February 25, 2019
Sunflowers growing in pots were placed, with their roots submerged, in the pond contaminated with radioactive elements.. Posted on February 25, 2019February 25, 2019
The quality of unrefined olive oil is not actually defined in terms of acidity, yet extensive tests.. Posted on February 25, 2019February 25, 2019
That the application of new technology can increase the productivity of existing coal mines is demonstrated by the case of Tribnia’s coal industry. Coal output per miner in Tribnia is double what it was five years ago, even though no new mines have opened. Posted on February 25, 2019February 25, 2019
A recent review of pay scales indicates that CEO’s now earn an average of 419 times more pay than blue-collar workers, compared to a ratio of 42 times in 1980. Posted on February 4, 2019February 7, 2019
Soaring television costs accounted for more than half the spending in the presidential campaign of 1992, a greater proportion than it was in any previous election. Posted on February 4, 2019February 7, 2019
The 32 species that make up the dolphin family are closely related to whales and in fact include the animal known as the killer whale, which can grow to be 30 feet long and is famous for its aggressive hunting pods. Posted on February 4, 2019February 7, 2019
During her presidency of the short-lived Woman’s State Temperance Society (1852-1853).. Posted on January 21, 2019February 25, 2019
By merging its two publishing divisions, the company will increase their share of the country’s.. Posted on December 17, 2018February 25, 2019