Word: plant
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...Stefanie L. Plant ’05, who was business manager of Diversity and Distinction Magazine from 2002 to 2003, inherited a magazine that was about $10,000 in debt. “The editor-in-chief told me that they had been ignoring calls from the printer,” she recalls. “We had been working with a new printer because we hadn’t yet paid...
...Facing the daunting problem of managing a debt-ridden organization, Plant found that the only way to pay back the old debts was to publish new issues—which, of course, meant incurring more debts. Frustrated by the old guard who passed on their embattled debts, Plant says, she quickly fell into a deeper hole. Yet still, she shied away from approaching the Student Activities Office for guidance. [SEE EDITOR'S NOTE BELOW...
...regarded by diplomats in Western capitals as a moderate. The two spoke at the country's main nuclear complex Natanz, in central Iran, and Larijani said Iran had begun injecting gas into centrifuges. Perhaps deliberately vague, neither official specified whether Tehran was running gas in the pilot plant at Natanz or a more expansive plant containing at least 3,000 centrifuges. The head of Iran's atomic energy organization, Reza Aghazadeh, added to the confusion on Tuesday, claiming that Iran planned to install 50,000 centrifuges in an interview with the semi-official ISNA new agency. Western experts are concerned...
...Some 20-30% of plant and animal species are at risk of extinction if global temperatures rise in line with median projections, while by 2080, many millions of people living along coastlines will face an annual flood risk. As Camille Parmesan, a professor of integrative biology at the University of Texas, put it, "We're going into a realm the world has not seen for a very long time...
...soothe Paris' war wounded as a masseur and found fans with his home-brewed treatment oils. Named for a character he portrayed in a high school play (he took the name as his own in the 1970s to celebrate his success), the family-owned company helped popularize therapeutic, plant-based skin-care products and grew to include salons around the world...