Word: grows
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...suggestions (or sometimes just at dinnertime), we realize that too many cooks can spoil the broth. And as far as relationships go, depending on the nature and identities of the persons involved, it's pretty clear that both "out of sight, out of mind" and "absence makes the heart grow fonder" are at times true...
Like normal viruses, computer viruses need a host to survive and grow. This ideal host is the promiscuous floppy disk. Exchanging data with any desktop it comes across, the floppies can infect an entire computer lab, campus or the world...
Childhood is the only time and place that grows larger as it is left behind. Two weeks at the seashore appear, in memory, as a floodlit Oz. The first airplane ride might have been to Venus. The early hours spent with radio, TV and films are the foundation of adult imagination. Yet when children grow up, they suffer some sad amnesia of taste. How else could former kids provide television programs designed to do nothing with time but kill it--as if, in Thoreau's phrase, it were possible to kill time without injuring eternity? From the moment...
...them will go on display at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington on March 20 and then after four months embark on a two-year, multicity tour. Inside this gatefold you will find two dozen representatives of a collection--and a tradition--that will only continue to grow...
...GROW YOUR OWN Doctors have grown new coronary blood vessels by injecting the heart with a bioengineered protein. Significance? One day the technique may be used to skirt blocked arteries...