Word: cropped
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...that bodes well for professionals. Forget skill and luck—all you have to make sure is that you’re better than the next guy, and the multitudes that have flocked to online poker in recent years have ensured that there is a consistent crop of bad players. One of Ian’s friends said he liked gambling because he is “surrounded by inept people, yet none of them are his boss, and if they do something dumb, it makes him money as opposed to a mess for him to clean...
...will lessons in crop yields truly ease tensions in Thailand's south? In the year since the gardening project was unveiled, the number of violent incidents in Thailand's deep south has only increased, despite army protests that this is a last-ditch, desperate campaign of terrorism from the insurgents. And while any overtly Buddhist undertones of the King's Sufficiency Economy theory have been stripped away in the south, there's no question that the royal economic philosophy draws succor from the Buddhist concept of the Middle Path. (Indeed, one fish-breeding program at the center was recently suspended...
...sixth season on Wednesday with “The Taming of the Shrew,” is a local theater company dedicated entirely to intimate and engaging productions of Shakespeare’s plays. Unlike many companies who operate out of one theatre, the Project’s productions crop up in unexpected locales, bringing the spirit of Shakespeare to myriad unconventional spaces. These temporary theatres foster an intimate connection between the players and the audience and work to eliminate the common stigmas of inaccessibility and intellectualism that surround Shakespeare...
...Manifesto,” notes in the Washington Post that the substance “may be cheap in the supermarket, but in the environment it could not be more expensive.” The American corn industry, which produces grain en masse, relies on monoculture: growing one crop on the same land year after year, which depletes soil and requires large quantities of fertilizers. As Pollan writes, this lack of “diversified agriculture” creates incredible dependence on nitrogen—leading to detrimental environmental effects: “By fertilizing the world, we alter...
...Trafigura and Carter-Ruck did not take into account the power of Twitterers. By dawn in Britain, the words Trafigura, Carter-Ruck and Guardian, often accompanied by the # sign that enables Twitter users to click through to collected tweets on a tagged subject, began to crop up on the site, elbowing their way into the top-10 trending topics by midmorning. "What is Trafigura anyway????" wondered 17-year-old @ClaireMacIsaac. An immediate response came from @iannutt, helpfully directing her to an earlier Guardian story that detailed Trafigura's involvement in what the newspaper described as "one of the worst pollution...