Word: grass
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...course, is aware that the government's core support comes from the grass roots: families in government housing estates who would view radical changes in family and marriage patterns as alarming, and where a gay child could expect to be tolerated at best or disinherited at worst. For these reasons, the government wants to move slowly...
...dark room off a dirt lot, a child leafs through the laminated pages of a picture album. There's jade green grass and a white paneled house and a little blond girl smiling. There's a big minivan and a bigger play set. There's a countertop completely covered with food. "This is a very nice place," Emmanuel Williams, 10, says in a quiet voice. "I would like to go to this place." From the point of view of an orphan in Liberia, suburban America looks like paradise. But for Emmanuel, it is a paradise beyond reach...
...been the boss for 12 years and understands how to foster a creative environment. Like Harry Potter's Hogwarts, EA is divided into competitive teams; each works on a separate game, and each wants to outsell the others. But they also share innovations--so the realistic-looking blades of grass from, say, Madden NFL 2003 also find their way onto Harry Potter's Quidditch field. Result: 22 of those teams sold more than 1 million copies last year. That's as close as the video-game business gets to a Hollywood ending. --By Chris Taylor
...treats you), losing your watch while making sandcastles with the kids, eating a prawn that has gone off and having to be rescued by a lifeguard with an obscenely flat stomach. Increasingly drawing people from such coastal delights are agritourism, where you pay to smell what cows do to grass, and "edge" trips, where you are charged big bucks to risk your life scaling or jumping off something. There's also the wellness jaunt, where you try to buy back misspent youth in a spa. And then there are excursions for culture vultures, those the English poet Philip Larkin called...
EUROPE—There is an old African saying, that when two elephants fight it is the grass that gets hurt. When two economic superpowers lock tusks in an agricultural trade war, not only the grass but the entire African continent that is laid to waste...