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...intrinsically inimical to the environment perplexes the Rockefeller Foundation's Conway, who views genetic engineering as an important tool for achieving what he has termed a "doubly green revolution." If the technology can marshal a plant's natural defenses against weeds and viruses, if it can induce crops to flourish with minimal application of chemical fertilizers, if it can make dryland agriculture more productive without straining local water supplies, then what's wrong with...
...result, says CRLS Principal Paula M. Evans, who formulated the reform plan, will be more intimate schools where every student is known well by at least one teacher. Parents, teachers and students widely agree that CRLS at present is a place where some students flourish, but where many students flounder because they have no connection to school officials...
...founders say leaving a permanent mark on the student group landscape was foremost in their minds when they started out. But now that they are graduating, they are becoming more aware of the impact their groups have had, and more interested in seeing them flourish for a long time...
...practice and its widespread abuse, it seems only natural for states to take steps to eliminate it from their police forces. While the California bill that passed is a small step in the right direction, it is unfortunate that the data collection will not occur. Social ills flourish outside the sharp focus of scientific scrutiny. A quote popularly attributed to Justice Louis D. Brandeis, Class of 1877, says it best: "Sunshine is the best disinfectant." The ability to target police forces that use racial profiling for training and intervention would be invaluable in the fight to combat racism nationwide...
...here's to the first 800 words of the Constitutional Amendments and beyond. and change "it" to "they" in next sentence. The "it" after that is also they, but the third stays 'it' (refers to leisured self-reflection) May they grow, flourish, prosper. May they facilitate dialogue, as well as leisured self-reflection, in all its frames, between commercial breaks. Here's to the continuity of discourse and a life well and honestly lived, to the eight hundred and first word, to the fifty sixth-and-a-half and to the ten thousandth, and to all that goes unsaid...