Example sentences for: italy

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  • Previous studies have found changes in sex ratio following exposure to hormonally active compounds, and different effects of chemicals on mothers and fathers could have opposing effects on the sex ratio [ 22 46 ] . Hormonally induced ovulation leads to a clear reduction in the sex ratio of offspring [ 47 ] , a result that has also been found following paternal exposure to the nematocide dibromochloropropane [ 23 24 ] . Paternal, but not maternal, exposure to dioxin following an explosion at an herbicide factory in Seveso, Italy was found to reduce the sex ratio [ 26 27 ] . In contrast, among veterans of Operation Ranch Hand, the unit responsible for spraying Agent Orange and other dioxin-containing herbicides in Vietnam, paternal dioxin levels greater than 10 ppt were associated with an increased percentage of male children [ 48 ] . In the latter study, however, maternal dioxin levels were not measured (although these would be expected not to be above background), and the paternal levels were likely somewhat lower than levels in men exposed following the Seveso incident.

  • Corriere also carried an interview with Gay Talese, "the troubadour of today's America and yesterday's Italy," dismissing the idea of a Kennedy curse.

  • The visit to Italy this week of President Mohammad Khatami of Iran, the first by an Iranian leader to western Europe since the Islamic revolution of 1979, was a major international story Wednesday across Europe and the Middle East.

  • They cited a forged document, the Donation of Constantine, supposedly bequeathing them political authority over all of Italy.

  • It was Giorgio Vasari, facile artist but first-rate chronicler of this cultural explosion, who allegedly dubbed it a rinascita, or rebirth, of the glories of Italy’s Greco-Roman past.


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