Word: crop
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson, a bumper crop of recruits came into Cambridge, including the likes of freshmen Emily Stauffer, Keren Gudeman, Kristen Bowes and Dana Krein. The first three were 1-2-3 on the team in scoring, while Krein was Crimson's NO. 1 goaltender...
...students are now the teachers, as the foursome has an entire new crop of underclassmen to lead and set an example for. And they know that someday the Class of 1998 will become the captains, trying live up to the standard set by their forbears...
...Dakota State University. On the edge of chocolate-dark fields on the west side of the campus, the federal government has built a maze of greenhouses, labs and research facilities dedicated to spawning new high-yield varieties of bug-resistant wheat, potatoes, sunflowers and sugar beets. There the Northern Crop Sciences Lab, the Biosciences Research Laboratory and the Wheat Quality Laboratory attract millions each year in research grants. Nearby, the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute and the Mountain-Plains Consortium perform Washington-sanctioned studies on guardrails and scenic byways. N.D.S.U. grew so fast in the 1980s under the pork-barreling...
...taken a different route to his pot-growing. That is, he hasn't been successful. Inspired by the success of Tom and Johnny and a recent cover story in the New York Times Magazine about the technology of growing marijuana, Mel started his first crop in February. The plants wilted and died one by one. "I think I overwatered them," Mel says. Nevertheless, he smoked their remains...
...current crop, Mel has rearranged the lights and tried different containers. He began with 18 plants and is now down to one. Well, actually two. "There's another weird plant that's growing in there that isn't pot," Mel says. Compared to the forest in Johnny's closet, Mel's closet looks like it has been clearcut. Next to one sickly plant is a pencil, stuck in the soil "to support the plant so it won't tip over...