Word: fifth
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...scored a run in the fifth, and in his second trip to the plate in the frame, took Bear reliever Bryant Romo yard to center field for a three-run shot...
...Africa (about 11,000), and the great majority are found nowhere else. The Missouri Garden has been active there since the early 1970s, helping train and support the country in evaluating and protecting threatened areas. In the northern Andes, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru are home to at least one-fifth of the world's biodiversity, including perhaps 60,000 species of plants, endangered by development and poorly studied. The garden has been cooperating with these nations to help them work out their own plans for the wise use of resources. Raven is volubly opposed to anything that smacks of American...
...help of children--from both sides of the Middle East divide. In February, 50 Arab kids from Jericho and 30 Jewish kids from Jerusalem converged at Jerusalem's Biblical Zoo to learn to make the birdhouses and get to know one another. Coexistence didn't come easily. A Jewish fifth-grader, tears of frustration flowing down her cheeks, rushed to her teacher. An Arab boy wouldn't give her a turn hammering nails into a box they were supposed to be building together. She spoke only Hebrew, he only Arabic. The Israeli teacher explained the problem--in English...
...nothing beats an overnight expedition. Fifth-grader Ryan Gregson spots a herd of deer in a meadow and exclaims, "Wow, I didn't know there were so many deer so close to where I live." And he won't soon forget...
...gaggle of fifth- and sixth-graders trailing her, Barbara Kearns stops on her cross-country skis, shushes the children's squeals, and muses, "Listen to the stillness. It's so quiet, but nature is moving all around us." The kids reflect on her words for two seconds before pushing one another over in yelping heaps of skis and poles. Kearns, an elfin woman with twinkly eyes, smiles at the antics and pushes ahead into the thickening snow blurring the Adirondack wilderness ahead. She's leading her students on an overnight field trip to discover the beauty and history of this...