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New research suggests that indoor swimming pools may be partly to blame for the rising number of asthma sufferers. Belgian researchers compared the rates of asthma in 13 and 14-year-old children in 21 European countries and the number of chlorinated swimming pools per 100,000 people. They found that childhood asthma and wheeze increased by 2-3% for every indoor swimming pool, possibly due to chlorine bi-products that can irritate children's airways.

DEFINITION: (noun) A mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity. SYNONYMS: tongue, clapper, lingua. USAGE: The creature had an enormously long glossa that it used to catch insects.

Lizzie Borden was a New England spinster who was tried for the brutal axe murders of her father and stepmother in the late 19th century. Because only circumstantial evidence was found, she was acquitted after a two-week trial. However, she was widely believed to be guilty and ostracized by society until her death in 1927. What popular poem helped to perpetuate the idea that she was guilty?

This two-day event was the first women's rights convention held in the US and is often cited as the birthplace of the feminist movement. At the conference, women issued a call for the US government to grant them equal rights, including the right to vote, to own property apart from their husbands, to attend colleges or professional schools, and to maintain custody of children after divorce. The Declaration of Independence served as a model for what document issued at the convention?

Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.

Roquefort is a flavorful ewe's-milk blue cheese aged in the natural caves of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon; it is one of the most famous of all French cheeses. The cheese has distinctive veins of blue mold which give it its characteristic odor and flavor, with a notable taste of butyric acid. The mold is found in the soil of local caves. How did cheesemakers traditionally extract the mold and add it to the cheese?