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...buoyant than surrounding rock, the diapirs percolate upward, like bubbles rising through honey, melting more rock as they go. Eventually they accumulate in pockets called magma chambers, located two miles to 15 miles underground. If the magma is very liquid and gases can escape gradually, a volcano may lie fallow for long periods of time...
...capsules in his land than by a rabid skunk in the area that might threaten his children, and by a raccoon that commandeered the basketball backboard over the garage and will not back off. Besides missiles and Air Force personnel, King's 5,000 acres contain spring wheat and fallow land in alternating green and brown stripes, a crop of oats, malting barley, a sleepy horse, a donkey and a 60-mile view extending to the Rockies. On a late-spring afternoon, the mountains glow like dark...
BOOSTING AGRICULTURE With fertilizers, cover crops, irrigation and improved seeds, Sauri's farmers could triple their food yields and quickly end chronic hunger. Grain could be protected in locally made storage bins using leaves from the improved fallow species tephrosia, which has insecticide properties...
...There’s this sort of half-life to the work of excellent scholars who go on to produce other scholars,” she says. “The same thing happens in reverse. People retire or resign and fields lie fallow...I expect that 10 years down the line, we’ll see a lot of excellent Middle East scholars...
...Bomb ought to get its whole request while three other projects dealing with issues of sexuality or sexual violence should be scaled back. But more importantly, the council should begin realizing that its decisions to fund (or not to fund) magazines results in them being published or laying fallow...