Word: grass
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...build interest in basketball, Stern is starting at the grass-roots level. "We have the potential, and we have the ability," says K.K. Chansoria, head coach of India's men's and women's basketball teams. "What we lack is the infrastructure." China had seven-footers wandering the countryside and a government so dedicated to hoops it put backboards in most cities. In India, basketball facilities are sparse and mostly substandard. India's national women's team often practices on a cracked concrete court, adjacent to a scrubby field, in New Delhi. The government places less emphasis on sports growth...
...something cute: Perhaps this is a clear reason why being Quadded isn’t so bad. Maybe this is the time to explain why fluid dynamics should be included in the Core. Possibly this is the key piece of evidence for understanding why the grass seems so much greener in Eliot. Perchance this can serve as the metaphoric link to arguing that, despite all the hours it spends debating, the Undergraduate Council doesn’t deal with crap. Or yet this could imply that the newly-installed green toilets have consequences of a darker color. (Sure, facilities maintenace...
...first world war ought to be dead by now. The soldiers who fought in it, the generals and politicians who ran it, are gone. The flickering newsreels show a world we hardly recognize. On the battlefields, the trenches have scarred over, and grass covers the shrapnel and shells. The corpses are now crosses on cemetery lawns. For Australians, the war is not only 90 years in the past but immensely far away. Yet Anzac Day ceremonies and battlefield pilgrimages are more popular than ever?and even the indifferent can't ignore the memorials in every town. When Les Carlyon passes...
...Breen’s piece, four peasants appear to bow before Kim Jong Il, who grasps an atomic weapon in his right hand. "That’s it! Bow before your great leader!" he orders. An adviser says in an aside that "They’re eating the grass, sir." The two cartoons depict the idea that North Korea’s nuclear program comes at the expense of the country’s food supply...
...News, which depicts four people apparently worshiping Kim Jong Il, who is holding a nuclear weapon and stating, “That’s it! Bow before you’re great leader.” An assistant responds, “They’re eating the grass...