Word: barrenness
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...you’re brave enough to make the walk to the barren land north of Annenberg, I’d suggest making a trip to the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. The museum is filled with interesting pieces collected by Harvard researchers of yore, back when the museum used to engage in measuring the skulls of different peoples to determine the evolution of each race...
...Hens in factory farms are forced to live their entire lives in barren batterycages—unable to stand upright, walk, or spread their wings—each given only 67 square inches of space,” Nussbaum wrote in an e-mailed statement. “Many battery-caged hens are already crippled with broken wings and legs, if not already dead, at the time of slaughter...
Darfur, a barren, mountainous land just below the Sahara in western Sudan, is the world's worst man-made disaster. In four years, according to the U.N., fighting has killed more than 200,000 people and made refugees of 2.5 million more. The conflict is typically characterized as genocide, waged by the Arab Janjaweed and their backers in the Sudanese government, against Darfur's black Africans. But what is often overlooked is that the roots of the conflict may have more to do with ecology than ethnicity. To live on the poor and arid soil of the Sahel--just south...
...Four years ago, a friend showed Liang Daxing a photograph of a traditional cloth pillow fashioned into a toy tiger. The image stirred Liang's memories of his time in China's barren, dirt-poor Northeast, where he was packed off for re-education during the terrible years of the Cultural Revolution. A master tailor, Liang, 59, was due to retire until he saw the photograph. It inspired him to hold onto his needle and thread, and delve into the old craft of making toys from spare cuts of fabric. Today, he sells the fruits of his labors from...
...Sure, the lack of goalposts on either end of the field left the grass behind the team logos in the football endzones ominously barren, but it wasn’t until just over midway through the first quarter of the Harvard men’s lacrosse team’s 9-6 win over Brown that the new locale’s capabilities really “shined...