Word: plant
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Federal agents last week arrested three college students from the prosperous Birmingham suburbs--sons of a doctor, a constable and a plant manager--accusing them of setting ablaze nine churches, home to both black and white congregations, in the rural counties around Birmingham in February. "It's hard to believe it was these kinds of kids," says Greene County sheriff Johnny Isaac. Most expected a troubled loner to emerge as the suspect. A volunteer firefighter pleaded guilty to an earlier series of burnings in 1996; a self-professed Satanist is in prison for similar crimes...
...model of human social evolution that sees European cultures as the winners of a geographical lottery that gave them the tools and environment to dominate other, less luckily-located, societies. He said that one key factor determining a civilization’s success is the number of animal and plant species that can be easily domesticated. And he said that, of the 14 animals that are easiest to domesticate and that are most useful to humans, 12 resided in Eurasia. (Two useful types of llamas were only indigenous to the New World, he said.) Diamond also said that Eurasia?...
...they left behind is scarred by the detritus of war and industry. To the southwest lies the Dugway Proving Ground, where the U.S. government develops chemical and biological weapons. To the east is one of the world's largest nerve-gas incinerators. To the north is a giant magnesium plant, a major polluter. To the northwest sit a hazardous-waste incinerator and a toxic-waste landfill. The tribe's only profitable business is a municipal garbage dump serving Salt Lake City...
That local skirmish, however, is dwarfed by national issues. Under pressure from Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, four of the original eight utilities in the consortium recently halted further investment in the project. PFS's Parkyn expects other utilities, particularly those with decommissioned plants, to step in as the project comes online in phases. "It is cheaper to ship to Utah than to build a dry storage site," he says. "And how can you guard spent fuel forever after a plant shuts down?" He expects the 31 other states with nuclear fuel stored at home to support both Yucca...
...coach Jennifer Allard. Advice for the freshmen? “You just tell them not to get behind in their schoolwork,” senior pitcher and co-captain Michele McAteer said. That may be an understatement for a team that will open its season on Mar. 4 in Plant City, Florida, and will not see the friendly confines of Soldiers Field until an Apr. 4 date with Boston College, 19 games later. The hazards of northeastern weather, coupled with more money for travel opportunities, have given the Crimson softball team the chance to attend three different tournaments over...