Word: apartness
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Last week’s devastating earthquake in Kashmir tore communities apart and plunged a region already beset by strife and uncertainty deeper into chaos. With the death toll rising past 50,000 and heading towards 100,000, a rising chorus of voices in Cambridge has been asking just how large a crisis has to be for Harvard to match donations from members of the community, as it has done two other times this year. Although we understand the call to have a clear-cut policy as to when Harvard will match donations, we feel that the University should continue...
...Romanians began killing 50,000 fowl. Local farmers wept as they watched their livelihoods destroyed. Romanian poultry products and Turkish live birds were immediately banned by the European Union, as governments sought to allay fears that a pandemic was imminent. E.U. officials emphasized that keeping domestic and wild birds apart is crucial to biosecurity, meaning that in high-risk areas, chickens and other fowl may be housed inside. "This has not caught us by surprise," said Health and Consumer Protection Commissioner, Markos Kyprianou. "[We] have been preparing for a possible outbreak for some time." Amid warnings that H5N1 has "pandemic...
...Part of the problem is that there is no precise scientific definition of the word planet. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) is trying to hammer one out, but the decision is proving more difficult than anyone thought. An apparent consensus, reached just weeks ago, seems to have fallen apart. "The current state," admits Brian Marsden, director of the IAU's Minor Planet Center at Harvard, "is rather confusing...
...Incidents like this happen because local officials, especially at the county and township levels, have interests apart from the work of governing. Since the taxation reforms of 1993, China's central government has taken the majority of tax revenue for itself and has left many local institutions without sufficient resources. In small, poor places, cadres want better working conditions, better incomes and better education. Since they don't get money from Beijing, they collect it from the farmers, many of whom are too poor to pay fees, taxes and other levies. This burden has been a classic cause of rural...
...possessions later, after sophomore Steven Williams muffed a punt—his third botched punt in two weeks—Davis once again picked apart the Harvard secondary, completing a 25-yard pass to Shaun Adair to tie the game...