Word: fallen
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...agreed not to play with the weather while making war. In the 1970s, the science of cloud seeding acquired a whiff of the snake oil, as disreputable private companies tried hawking it to desperate, drought-ridden communities. And by the following decade, it had fallen out of favor (its use in Vietnam, which reminded some people of Agent Orange, probably didn't help much), and funding fell off with...
...People have fallen out of touch with the river,” Lawaetz said. “My main motivation is that this sort of marks a reestablishment of what is internationally an appropriate interaction with a water body...
...program was tentatively blaming the crash on the runway’s lack of “grooving.” (Grooves cut into the pavement to allow for water drainage). The airline had re-opened the runway on June 25 after renovation. Since then, the first rain had fallen only the day before the crash...
...world was not as the Taliban had described it. The Taliban indoctrinated him well, convincing him the Americans were stealing the faith of Afghan Muslims. Turning them into kafirs. I asked him if he hated the governor. No, it was simply that in working with the Americans he'd fallen away from Islam. He deserved...
...Obama did make a legitimate point about how we value one set of victims over another. The Washington Post runs a regular feature called "Faces of the Fallen" for U.S. military casualties, but no such feature exists for the steady accumulation of teenage corpses in the District of Columbia. "He's saying something true, regardless of how you slice through the statistics," says Dan Kahan, a Yale Law professor who has spent years studying how Americans perceive gun risks. "It's a salient way to bring people's attention to an empathy deficit. The failure of this group [of Chicago...