Word: grown
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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When Gary Maxworthy's wife passed away in 1993, he began to ponder his own mortality and the imprint he would one day leave on the world. He was 56. The kids were grown. "I was never really motivated by money," he says. "I like to make things happen." So he gave up a six-figure salary in the food-distribution business and launched the nonprofit Farm to Family, which this year will deliver 34 million lbs. of fresh produce for free to low-income neighborhoods throughout California...
...past few years, they've also turned paying more into a moral cause no right-thinking chef could argue against: free-range, local, sustainable, organic, hormone-free, heirloom, slow food. As a result, top chefs have had to increase their budgets to find the obscure variety of beet grown only by Shakers or the cow that has been massaged, seen Radiohead live and enjoyed Tantric sex before being slaughtered with love...
...first patients to receive Atala's regenerated organs were seven young children who were transplanted with bladders grown from their own cells. Eight years after their surgery, the children are doing well, and their bladders continue to function normally. Atala now has about 20 other tissues and organs in his lab almost ready for human trials, but he refuses to rush the technology. "Our goal is to transfer these technologies from bench to bedside in the fastest way possible," he says, "But we have gone slowly in these trials because we wanted to make sure that the tissues and organs...
...Syndicate members say they don't do it for the money. They invest because they have a passion for horses and want to be more deeply involved with friends and family in the spectacle of thoroughbred racing. "It's amazing how quickly the bond develops between a group of grown adults whose only common interest is that they own a piece of horse flesh," says Harriet Rochester, a former British racing official who runs a syndicate...
...childhood diseases, or were maimed by motorbike wipeouts on dangerous roads. Others are ex-combatants with nowhere to go: the Hawks, in the notorious Khmer Rouge stronghold of Pailin, field a mixed team of cashiered former rebels and government soldiers. From eight teams in 2002, the local league has grown to 16 sponsored squads in two divisions who compete for an annual $3,000 prize - a sum that goes a long way in rural Cambodia...