The decline is attributed to increased use of pesticides. Amend, Discuss, Correct Citizens of smog-ridden Los Angeles can now avail of snorts of pure oxygen at a number of oxygen bars. Twenty dollars gets you 20 minutes of plain or fruit scented oxygen. In Victorian times, estate gardeners never planted grape vines without first burying a dead donkey underneath the plot. Correct The Amazon region contains the largest body of fresh water and the largest rain forest in the world.
Some studies indicate that insomnia can be predictive of future mental illness.
Correct The potato is the most widely grown vegetable in the world. About 1.4 million acres of land in the U.S. are used to produce potatoes each year. Amend, Discuss, Correct A cousin to the buckball, a new molecular form of carbon known as the fullerene nanotube, can now be made in the lab. These single carbon molecules are so small that nanotubes sufficiently long to span the 250,000 miles between earth and the moon could be loosely rolled into a ball the size of a poppyseed. Amend, Discuss, Correct The tallest man in documented medical history was Robert Pershing Wadlow.