Word: ately
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...rice as their major staple, around 10% risk some degree of vitamin-A deficiency and the health problems that result. The reason, some alleged, was an overreliance on rice ushered in by the green revolution. Whatever its cause, the result was distressing: these people were so poor that they ate a few bowls of rice a day and almost nothing more...
Time is elastic. That weekend seems either two days, or possibly 10 years, ago. On that evening, by chance, we were having dinner with a friend at her house on Martha's Vineyard. The sun had gone down. We ate dinner in the afterlight, looking out over Vineyard Sound. We peered toward the mainland and one of us said, "There's going to be a storm." A dark, ominous haze had gathered - disorienting indeed. The water of the Sound had become indistinguishable from the air - all was an inky continuum, a squid's cloud. Only when we looked higher, into...
...French workplace are totally unnecessary. The hour-long lunches are absolutely delicious. And although I need to figure out how to pronounce certain business words like "yuppie" (pronounced "youpee") and "logon" ("lugunn"), my French is going to make the grade and I am improving by the hour. Additionally, I ate two fresh croissants for breakfast this morning, along with a delicious cup of cafe. My concierge is a sweet if loud Portugese woman who was more than happy to show me how to find the metro station. The Parisian summer rarely gets hotter than 80 degrees, so air conditioning...
...Imagine that bacteria ate apple pie in order to live. If you have millions of good bacteria gobbling down huge pieces of the pie, there isn't much left for the harmful bacteria. But when we use all of these antibacterial soaps and lotions, we're killing off the good bacteria, and leaving more of the pie for the dangerous ones...
...nowhere near payday, and Lisa Halverson was down to $10 and a package of diapers. While she enjoyed working as a typist in Minneapolis, day-care expenses for her two preschoolers, at $160 a week, ate most of her $207 take-home pay. Halverson felt she had no choice but to go on welfare. "The hardest thing I ever had to do," she says, "was to tell my boss I couldn't afford to work anymore...