Some studies link sizes of certain brain regions with gender identity.
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The size of a specific brain region correlates with a person's gender identity.
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Omar Shareef publicly demanded payment for subcontractors on the Obama Presidential Center.
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Omar Shareef, president of the African American Contractors Association, demanded that Barack Obama, the Obama Foundation, the general contractor, and Lakeside Alliance pay contractors involved in the Obama Presidential Center project.
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Thermal stress can raise cortisol and suppress testosterone, especially chronically.
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Under thermal stress, elevated cortisol can reduce testosterone levels, affecting sexually dimorphic traits.
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Testosterone often mediates male-typical sexually selected traits, but other hormones also drive dimorphism across taxa.
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Testosterone is the principal endocrine mechanism by which sexual selection translates into morphological sexual dimorphism.
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Many sexually dimorphic traits are energetically costly, and thermal stress often raises metabolic demands.
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Sexual dimorphism is energetically costly to produce and maintain, and these costs are expected to increase as environments become more thermally stressful.
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Iranian singer Parastoo Ahmadi was sentenced to 74 lashes over a hijabless online-released performance.
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Iranian authorities sentenced singer Parastoo Ahmadi to 74 lashes for performing without a hijab during an online concert.
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Sexually selected traits often impose physiological costs that intensify under environmental stress.
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Physiological costs of expressing sexually selected traits (for example, elevated thermal loads) can oppose natural selection that would otherwise favor smaller or less ornamented phenotypes, especially under environmental stress.
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Stratospheric ozone depletion is a global phenomenon, not localized over China.
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Stratospheric ozone over China is significantly depleted due to pollution.
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Synanon’s property tax disputes focused on charitable, educational, and religious exemptions.
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Synanon used communal living arrangements to avoid paying property taxes.
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Australia’s Age Pension assets test changes took effect on 1 January 2017.
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The Australian Age Pension assets test changes were implemented on 1 January 2017.
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The ozone layer is recovering, and recent CFC-11 surges were curtailed.
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Factories in China are destroying the Earth's ozone layer.
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No U.S. or international health agency reports any zombie outbreak.
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There is a zombie outbreak in the United States.
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Andy Burnham commissioned and backed inquiries into child sexual exploitation.
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Andy Burnham is responsible for a cover-up of rape gangs in the North West of England.
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Migrant workers formed the backbone of Qatar’s 2022 World Cup construction workforce.
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Qatar relied heavily on migrant workers to build infrastructure for the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
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Thierry Henry leads Kylian Mbappé in combined senior goals and assists.
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Kylian Mbappé has better career statistics than Thierry Henry when comparing total goals and total assists across all senior club matches and all senior international matches.
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Jamie Oliver criticized McDonald’s use of processed beef trimmings as unfit.
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Jamie Oliver alleged that McDonald's uses meat from animals unfit for human consumption.
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A1 Motor Park is Bulgaria’s first FIM Grade B homologated motorcycle circuit.
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A1 Motor Park near Samokov, Bulgaria is the first motorcycle track-racing circuit in Bulgaria certified by the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM).
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Lionel Messi has 16 FIFA World Cup goals, tied with Miroslav Klose.
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Lionel Messi surpassed Miroslav Klose's record for most goals scored in FIFA World Cup matches.
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The U.S. Justice Department filed its Microsoft antitrust suit May 18, 1998.
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In 1998, the United States Department of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft Corporation in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
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The 2001 Microsoft-DOJ settlement mandated conduct changes, interface disclosures, OEM flexibility, and compliance oversight.
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In 2001, Microsoft and the U.S. Department of Justice reached an antitrust settlement that required Microsoft to change certain business practices, share technical information with third-party software developers, allow flexibility in…
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