Word: buffer
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...hard to find farms that invite visitors to take part in the picking process.For those who can’t make it out to the fields, the well-organized HUDS farmers’ market sets up camp near the Yard every Tuesday, providing a symbolic buffer between the chemicals of Science Center laboratories and the ostensibly natural food of Annenberg. It offers students an ample opportunity to not only eat local produce, but also to speak with the people who grow it.SHOW YOUR SAVVYEven if you’re just going out to eat, you can still take an active...
...their shyness prevents them from sharing their pain with others, particularly close family members, then the feelings of humiliation and shame can get exaggerated. "They have nobody to stand up for them and defend them, and develop a sense that no one is there to protect them and buffer them from the difficult world," she says...
...curtain rises on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Scholastic; 759 pages), all Harry's parents and parent-figures - Sirius and Dumbledore - are dead. He's quit school, and he's got a job to do, picking up the shards of Voldemort's shattered soul. Any soft adult buffer between him and the world has been stripped away. He's riding the rims. Harry isn't having a good time anymore...
According to this view, the Chinese have helped persuade Kim that he need not feel threatened by opening, however cautiously, to the outside world. Beijing has an enduring interest in making sure North Korea is a viable buffer state against the U.S. and its ally, Seoul. Beijing has further stressed to the North that the U.S. views its bilateral relationship with China as far and away its most important account in east Asia, and that it has no interest in toppling Kim or starting a war. That's a tough sell, many in the region say - us-against-the-world...
...recent change to divisional boundaries has brought to Bennelong people from poorer suburbs to the west and cut Howard's buffer to 4%. While Labor sniffs a chance to win, the P.M. is just as likely to think of the new entrants as future converts to the Howard doctrine. There is a sharp whiff of Shanghai exuberance around Labor. Just as in China's stock exchanges, the local political market will eventually turn to reflect fundamental laws. The Australian electorate is ultimately conservative. Issues such as the war in Iraq and the five-year Guant?namo incarceration of David Hicks...