Word: plantes
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...ENDED PRODUCTION. OLDSMOBILE, the oldest American automotive brand name; after the last Alero (its final surviving model) rolled off the line at a General Motors plant in Lansing, Michigan. A middle-class stalwart of the GM line, with 35.2 million cars made since 1897, Olds lost out in the competition with minivans, suvs and imports. In December 2000, GM announced that after the 2004 Alero, its road would...
...anomaly. Those who fear that the council is not structurally ready to handle such a large increase in funds can rest assured that along with a doubled budget will come more than doubled enthusiasm, energy and creativity to make good use of it—a plant does not grow before it is watered. Let it grow. Vote to increase the student activities fee so that we can live up to our moniker of the College...
...hurt tourism. In New York, General Electric, which contaminated 40 miles of the Hudson River with cancer-causing PCBs, has hired high-profile attorney Laurence Tribe to convince federal courts that the Superfund law is unconstitutional. And in New Jersey, where the rabbits frolicking around the Chemical Insecticide Corp. plant once grew green-tinged fur, cleanup funds were restored only after locals sent green plush bunnies to members of Congress...
When Charlie Ferguson was growing up in Beech Grove, Ind., he would help his dad, a connoisseur of spicy food, to plant and tend a backyard crop of chili peppers. So began a lifelong love affair with hot peppers. As an adult, Ferguson found commercial salsa either too salty or not spicy enough for his discerning palate, and he started making his own. By the time he married Glenda Klingensmith eight years ago and moved to her farm in Noblesville, Ind., Ferguson, now 52, was hooked on homemade salsa--so much so that he started planting jalapenos, habaneros, red chilis...
Britain's Financial Times once described Steven Pinker as "a handsome man" with a hairstyle that "works equally well for Led Zeppelin front man Robert Plant." But even if the Harvard psychologist didn't look like a rock star, he would still play to packed houses on the lecture circuit. He has something rare among top-tier scholars, an ability to convey complex ideas with clarity, flair and wit. That's one reason his books--most recently, The Blank Slate--make best-seller lists even as they make waves in academia. The other reason is those waves in academia. Pinker...