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Marquise Middleton

Grasshoppers' Terror Outlives Them - Science News - 0 views

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    Grasshoppers' terror outlives them Carcasses of jumpy insects taint soil Web edition : Thursday, June 14th, 2012 Terrified insects can haunt their homeland after they die. Chemical remnants of fear in the rotting corpses of grasshoppers slow the decomposition of dead grass and other debris important for fertilizing new plant growth, a new study finds.
Daphne Emrick

Survey: Teens more accepting of out-of-wedlock pregnancy - USATODAY.com - 0 views

  • Among teens in the USA, the percentage who have had sexual i
  • tercourse or say they'd be pleased if they or their partner were to get pregnant hasn't changed much since early in the decade, and there appears to be a growing acceptance of having babies outside marriage, a government report
  • said Wednesday. From 1995 to 2002, "it was pretty much across-the-board improvements in those risk factors," says lead author Joyce Abma, a statistician at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics. "It is a source of concern to see that forward movement kind of stalling
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  • Based on in-person interviews with 1,381 girls and 1,386 boys ages 15 to 19 in 2006-2008, more than four in 10 never-married teens in the USA have had intercourse at least once, Abma and her co-authors estimate. That's a slight drop from 2002, the last time the National Survey of Family Growth was conducted, but it was not statistically significan
Thomas Bailey

The Touch, The Feel: Organic Clothing Industry Continues Sky-High Growth! » G... - 2 views

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