"Decimated houses, decimated health care, decimated schools.
"Right now NASA's Mars science exploration budget is being decimated," Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, said in testimony before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation.
Last year, scientists in Australia released research suggesting that a facial cancer that has decimated the wild Tasmanian devil population is transmissible (Science, 18 February 2005).
This has decimated the flora and fauna diversity, says Prof Dilip Datta, a lecturer in environmental science at Khulna University.
IN the 1997 science-fiction movie "The Velocity Trap," the interstellar banking system is so decimated by electronic crime that the only way to exchange money is in cold hard cash.
"The Republican Party has been so decimated here that it's very difficult to try to pick up the pieces," said Ann Crigler, a political science professor at the University of Southern California.
Many scholars have noted with alarm that our country's basic science-education programs are not up to snuff, but our industrial-arts programs have also been decimated, and preparatory courses like shop and drafting are no longer widely taught.
He talked about how the Taliban had decimated the ministry, firing the female half of the staff, failing to maintain schools and forgoing the development of subjects like science in favor of the madrasas, the religious schools.
Many beds were decimated.
"Vinyl decimated the community".
