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Just who were those “new drinkers” who didn’t like beer? Federal data shows the median age for the first consumption of alcohol is about 14, and Jernigan says the people who don’t like the taste of beer tend to be young women. The alcopop-makers managed to convince state and federal regulators that the products were “flavored malt beverages” like beer, even though the main ingredient was distilled spirits. The designation allowed companies to sell these products in convenience stores that also sold beer, at a much lower tax rate than hard liquor required, making them more accessible to underage drinkers. The liquor companies then blasted the youth market with ads for the new products.

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Fig. S10. Conceptual model of ice-stream/ice-shelf threshold behavior conditioned by bed strength and bed topography.

For almost her entire life, iron bars will hold this mother pig on the slotted concrete floor of Borgic’s 6,000-animal breeding operation as she produces litter after litter. She can step a few inches forward or backward but not turn around. Her heaving belly, waving head and dark-rimmed eyes are the only parts she seems free to move.

These sorts of changes may even occur more often when gene-drive systems are present, since the gene-editing system doesn’t always neatly edit and may create deletions of the DNA it targets.

Impact of dietary threonine The analyzed total dietary fiber content was higher (18.5%) in the high-fiber diets than the low-fiber diets (12.5%). The total indispensable analyzed and calculated amino acid content of the experimental diets were similar.

We also know that these intelligent animals will bite the bars of their cage to express boredom or frustration at their confinement. The pregnant sows develop skin abrasions from the metal bars as the stall is not much larger than their body.

The absence of a distinct atmospheric or oceanic warming event or sea level “trigger” at the time of the step change in ice-stream behavior ~18.5 to 16 ka BP argues against external forcing as the primary driver (Fig. 6). That notwithstanding, we cannot rule out the possibility of an external trigger (rapid atmospheric or ocean warming or sea level event) occurring on a time scale below the resolution of the currently available proxy records. However, the temporally synchronous but spatially differing behavioral response of the grounding line within the MnIS sector reinforces our view that catchment-specific internal (dynamical), rather than external, factors were the major drivers of change at this time.

One man was arrested Tuesday morning after a police chase through the Riverview area ended in a crash.

The only way to ensure to avoid subsidizing animal cruelty, they urge, is to fundamentally revamp our animal protection laws. Until that happens, perhaps the only humane diet, the activists say, is one where we abstain from eating animals altogether.

Multibeam echo-sounder bathymetry data reveal well-preserved fields of large, closely spaced, cross-cutting iceberg scours in present-day water depths of 70 to 100 m (Fig. 3) in the east trough of the Minch. These iceberg scours are concentrated on the surface of GZWs 15 and 16 and are notably absent in deeper water (>150 m below present-day sea level). The iceberg furrows’ large size (length and width) but narrow water-depth range, strong linearity, preferred orientation, and predominantly u-shaped cross-profiles are the hallmarks of an abrupt ice-front breakup or mass-calving event (27, 28), rather than of cumulative iceberg scouring over a sustained period of time (fig. S9). We infer this breakup to have occurred when the retreating ice-stream calving front reached the grounding line (GZW15) during a second ice-front collapse—probably of a partially confined ice shelf or ice tongue. This sequence of events also briefly led to the formation of a deep calving bay between GZWs 15 and 17 as the grounding line temporarily stabilized and the system evolved from an ice stream with an extensive floating ice front to a large tidewater glacier. Evidence of proximal-glaciomarine calving-bay sediments are seen in the thickly draped acoustic facies and rhythmically laminated dropstone-rich muds recovered in cores adjacent to GZW15 (figs. S8 and S9). GZW17 is the innermost and smallest grounding-zone feature in the sequence that, we suggest, records transient grounding of the large tidewater-glacier ice front shortly after the loss of the ice-shelf or ice-tongue section.

I reckon I better get busy with that ironing before I totally lose my ambition to do so. So, stay tuned, check yer cinch on occasion and remember “the best things in life are not always things!” I’ll c. y’all, all y’all. ❖