Word: grounds
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...East Jerusalem as "Arab East Jerusalem" deems it Arab in advance of permanent status negotiations. If they really want to worry about violations of a 'peace' agreement, that had no chance to begin with, their concern would perhaps be better directed towards the Israeli's systematic, on-the-ground infractions, rather than The Crimson's adherence to the international convention of referring to eastern Jerusalem as 'Arab East Jerusalem...
...Think of the farmer at harvest time, which it is soon enough for apples, and for wheat in warmer climes. He thinks of this harvest, of course, but of future harvests as well. And about how he must plant the ground for the coming season after the depression of winter, which in itself is not depressing, but part and parcel of the seasonal fluctuation...
...Ernest, "we made a serendipitous discovery." Dr. Karine Gabrielian, a physician on the team, had been struggling to fashion the thinnest possible slivers of fibrinogen. Checking on her samples one morning, she found that some of the slivers had curled up into spheres, each the size of a coarsely ground speck of pepper. Gabrielian added several of these odd-looking constructs to a culture dish that also contained fetal RPE cells. Within 24 hours, the cells attached themselves to these motes of material and started to grow. Then the researchers transplanted the spheres into the eyes of rabbits, positioning them...
Salome is explaining a traditional cure for pterygium, an eye affliction common to the tropics in which vision gradually becomes obscured as a layer of tissue encroaches over the cornea. The traditional cure used by healers is leaves of Centella asiatica, a ground-hugging vine, which Salome chews into a poultice, smears on a cloth and then places as a compress on the afflicted eye for three consecutive nights...
...live episode of ER as well as a record-setting Seinfeld, the network managed to trounce ABC and CBS in Round 1 of the fall ratings war ? the first-week Nielsen ratings. ABC didn't do too badly; their infamous "TV is Good" campaign appears to be breaking some ground as the sitcom Dharma & Greg joined Home Improvement and Football among their top-rated shows...