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...Crimson could get no closer. Whenever they would creep to within striking distance, Sytulek would answer with a long-range bomb...
...newly carved cave fills with air, drops of water seep in through the walls and ceiling. Minerals trapped in these trickles begin to precipitate out of solution, hardening into a stunning array of underground ornaments. Stalactites drip down from the ceiling. Stalagmites creep up from the floor. Miniature forests made of twisted branches of calcium carbonate stretch out from the walls. Many of the formations are so delicate that they can easily be destroyed by the presence of humans...
...meant more to me than any book I read in my life," Fonda said. "It reinforced my deep, deep belief that we must not allow [hatred] to creep into our hearts...
...least half as old as a mature sequoia tree. The thing has already taken over a whopping 15 hectares (37 acres). It weighs in at somewhere between 100 and 1,000 tons, at least as big as a blue whale. And it is still growing. At its present creep, it could reach the city of beer and bratwurst in a mere 1.6 million years...
Teachers may try to move in where parents have retreated. But with class sizes increasing and school violence growing, it is often all educators can do to maintain minimal order, much less give individual attention to any child. Some teachers admit that the insidious attitudes creep into the classroom. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy: when teachers have lower expectations for their black students, they give them less attention and do not push them as hard to do well. Such stereotypes have crossed racial barriers to the point where even black teachers may hold these same attitudes. "If teachers feel...