Word: grips
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...season and dripping fogs during the dry season nurture a slick algae that add a treacherous coating to rocks and other surfaces. That may explain why the Vu Quang ox evolved narrow, two-toed hooves with a concave area on the bottom that could give the animal a better grip on the terrain...
Twenty years ago in Bucharest, the United Nations World Population Conference produced a wish list of things governments might do to get a grip on population: improve the status of women, expand access to health care, alleviate poverty. With the notable exception of Africa, the world has made progress in these areas: infant mortality has declined, as has the percentage of people who live in abject poverty, and the Green Revolution has improved the diet of hundreds of millions of people...
...more complex than most: she is an ethnic Chinese in "white ghost" America, a protofeminist woman caught between two male-dominated cultures, a natural writer in English whose parents are literate only in Chinese. In addition to being captivated by folk mythology, she is, like most writers, in the grip of intense family mythology -- about an aunt shamed to suicide by giving birth to a bastard, about uncles murdered by communists who then arrogantly urge her father, safely in America, to "donate" the dead men's lands. These stories clearly indicated to young Kingston that America was better than China...
...naysayers. These experts say the communist Kims are poor and isolated. They have lost most of their supporters in the world, are crunched up against giant Russia and China, and cannot hope to match South Korea's economic performance. All they have to defend their regime and their own grip on power is the nuclear program, which is popular at least with the armed forces, and they do not propose to give...
Getting a Grip on Haiti...