Word: heights
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...were in place for a stew of a scandal. At stake were nothing less than the fate of the Italian tomato crop, one of the country's leading exports, and the pride of Campania, a lush farming region that stretches from Naples to the slopes of Vesuvius. At the height of the harvest two weeks ago, deliveries of tomatoes to canneries were abruptly suspended by the Italian Ministry of Agriculture. Reason: suspicions that much of a 200,000-metric-ton crop, perhaps 30% of a bumper harvest, contained the poisonous insecticide aldicarb. Marketed by Union Carbide under the trade name...
...Vietnam War-era disciplinary body that had Jain Jorman since 1975, was revived at the height of campus anti-apartheid protests across the country this spring to hear the cases of some 18 students involved in both the Lowell House blockade and another earlier anti-apartheid sit-in at the office of Harvard's governing boards...
Though forensic medicine has become highly refined in recent years, the trained eye is still among the most reliable tools. Sex, for instance, can be identified by the shape of the intact pelvis: generally, a woman's has a wider opening to permit childbirth. Height can be calculated, within an inch or two, from the lengths of the major arm or leg bones. Race can be indicated by the texture of the hair or from certain features of the skull, among them the shape of the eye sockets and the spacing of the nasal apertures...
...Brazilian team has already concluded that the remains are those of a Caucasian male. Their estimate of his stature conforms with Mengele's recorded height...
Divestment has caught fire precisely at a time when the cult of the dollar has reached its height and arguments for the inherent morality and justness of capitalism ring most shrill. The movement urging Harvard to divest of its $580 million in South Africa-related investments is an important step towards infusing the free market with a needed dose of democratic decision-making and morality...