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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...deal in Canada at all. It’s an acquired tradition when I moved here to Cambridge...We spend it in Truro, where the pilgrims landed before they came to Plymouth. They anchored in Provincetown and they sent out a party that found water and corn in Truro. They thanked God when they should have really thanked the Indians...

Author: By Michelle B. Timmerman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hey Professor: Holiday Edition | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

...Sequencing the corn genome was like driving down miles and miles of desolate highway with only sporadically placed signposts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

...little frugality? Because healthy savings rates, including government and business savings, are one of the surest indicators of a country's long-term financial health. High savings lead, over time, to increased investment, which in turn generates productivity gains, innovation and job growth. In short, savings are the seed corn of a good economic harvest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Five Things the U.S. Can Learn from China | 11/12/2009 | See Source »

...from behind a dam near the demilitarized zone, which ended up killing six South Koreans who were camping downstream on their side of the border. (The North issued a rare statement of regret after the incident.) Lee recently offered as a goodwill gesture to send 10,000 tons of corn and 20 tons of dry-milk powder as aid to the North, but Pyongyang, through its state-run media, was contemptuous in response. "South Koreans should be ashamed of and disgraced by this small-minded, condescending act," a state-run paper sneered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Before Obama's Visit, a New Clash Between Koreas | 11/10/2009 | See Source »

...student, Christopher J. Ashley, synthesized environmental and religious concerns in his own life after participating in the annual corn harvest in Kenya. For the fourth year in a row, the harvest was blighted with disease...

Author: By Jessie J. Jiang and Natasha S. Whitney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Using Religion to Go Green | 11/9/2009 | See Source »

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