Word: harvestable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stories get stranger. Medina says he has "heard tell of handcuffs on beds," adding that other suspicious recreational objects have been found in student rooms after move-out. But the harvest is not always negative...
...Hurwitz, would just as soon swat this photogenic Butterfly off her tree. It has disrupted her sleep with air horns and floodlights, placed 24-hour guards around the tree in an aborted effort to cut off supplies from her support team, and sent in chain saws and helicopters to harvest around her. On a video distributed by Earth First, helicopter blades are shown churning the branches of Butterfly's aerie, as a hard hat shouts from below, "Get ready for a bad hair...
...centuries such calculations were confined to a few learned theorists. In the minds of most people, time was vague; the future was tomorrow's sunrise, the next harvest, the coming winter or the inevitability of death. The more distant future belonged to the realm of religion. The modern concept of the future did not begin to develop until the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance, with the gradual consolidation of calendars, the spread of clocks and the stirrings of new forces. Both science and commerce needed to anticipate things, whether a chemical reaction or the expiration of contracts...
...hamlet of 49 families, 1,263 people, deep in the countryside southeast of Bamako. There are still no paved roads, no electricity, no running water anywhere in the district. But with help from its CMDT-sponsored village association, which bought insecticides, oxen and a weighing machine, the families regularly harvest bumper crops. Mali's Producers' Union, a rarity in Africa, negotiates with CMDT to set prices for the farmer, and the village association receives block earnings. Extra profits are pooled, and so far N'Tjinina has bought two water pumps and built three primary schools, paying the three teachers' salaries...
Fred W. Friendly, the esteemed former CBS News president who collaborated with Edward R. Murrow on some of TV's most groundbreaking documentaries, died Tuesday in New York after a series of strokes. He was 82. Friendly was the behind-the-scenes force on such documentaries as "Harvest of Shame" in 1961, about migrant farm workers, and the Murrow "See It Now" report that hastened the downfall of Sen. Joseph McCarthy. "He was my No. 1 cheerleader back to legitimacy," Geraldo Rivera, who was a student of Friendly's at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, told the Associated...