Word: harvestable
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...ballet is in two acts and portrays the sorrowful love story of a young peasant girl, Giselle. The first act takes place in a rural village where it is harvest season. A frail young Giselle falls in love with a flirtatious Albrecht who is, unknown to her, a count disguising himself as a peasant. Albrecht quickly wins her heart and swears his love for her in a joyful scene which ends with Giselle pulling off the petals of a flower in a game of "He loves me, he loves...
...costumes and scenery for Giselle were stunning. The first act had colorful sets of vineyards ready for harvest, and the reds and oranges of the trees reflecting the season. The richness of color of the costumes matched the scenery from the browns of the peasants to the deep reds of the visiting nobility in their hunting clothes. The real greyhound dogs were quite cute onstage, and definitely added to the overall scene...
...amiable, unfooled expression and a finger-in-the-light-socket aurora of curly brown hair. She helped organize Greenpeace's Fish Bus Tour '98, a 30-city caravan that left Seattle in July and crossed the heartland toward a September finish on Cape Cod. Middle Americans may not harvest the ocean's bounty, but they are hearty eaters of the catch...
Although the technique yielded a relatively meager harvest of up to 300,000 sperm for each attempt (in contrast to 100 million or more in a natural ejaculation), the results were impressive. Of 14 pregnancies involving couples who wanted girls, the researchers report, 13 produced females. Says Fugger: "We're talking about increasing your chances of getting girls five- or sixfold." No formal report has yet been published on selecting a male baby, which, to the surprise of the scientists, was not the choice of most participants. But preliminary results suggest male selection will work 65% of the time...
Other institutions charged with monitoring the countries liable to famine failed to deliver strong, early warnings. Last September the U.S.A.I.D. put out a bulletin on its Famine Early Warning System predicting that Sudan's bad harvest would cause shortages and lead to intensified fighting over supplies, but the organization did not predict a full-scale famine. When the U.N.'s World Food Program, a major partner in Operation Lifeline, was preparing in December to ask donor countries for 30,000 tons of food for Sudan, its own estimates showed at least 35,000 tons would be needed. (Today the program...