Word: home-grown
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...parent club to fill the gaps that age and injury inevitably open during the long, hot summer. Of a 25-man roster, 13 are onetime Dodger farm boys. In contrast, the Yankees built their team by spending big bucks on the free-agent market and have only six home-grown players on their squad. The Yankees can field the most devastating starting nine in baseball but have few reserves to call upon when trouble strikes...
...above lectures feature visiting speakers, but some superb home-grown talent will also be on display this coming week. James S. Ackerman, professor of Fine Arts, John K. Finley, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature, Emeritus, and Wallace T. MacCaffrey, professor of History, will participate in a panel discussion on "Lecturing in the Humanities," Monday at 4:15 p.m. in Science Center...
...being dipped into the gulf. Its highest points are the spines of levees that hold back the river and salt marshes from the 10% of the parish that is dry land. The main highway, Louisiana Route 23, hugging the river's west bank, runs past wooden stands where home-grown oranges are sold and small mountain ranges of lemony-colored sulfur waiting to be loaded on ships...
Equally adept at agronomy and foiling the police, Oregon's pot farmers turned home-grown weed into a profitable racket by developing their unique sinsemillas hybrid. The robust, waste-free strain attracts buyers willing to pay $1,600 a pound, the yield from just one well-cultivated plant. Studies show that sinsemillas weed contains five times more tetrahydrocannabinol (pot's narcotic ingredient) than the common Mexican variety. Even federal drug experts are impressed. "A good deal of expertise goes into producing that kind of plant," notes Dr. Carlton Turner, director of marijuana research for the National Institute of Drug Abuse...
Khan lives a reclusive life with his family and the few students who study with him, on his estate in northern India at the foot of the Himalayan Mountains. One of his favorite topics is his home-grown produce and simple rural lifestyle...