Word: reaping
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Cambodia presents a few problems for people traveling with children. All those skulls at the Killing Fields near Phnom Penh will induce nightmares, and hiking untold acres of stone temples near Siem Reap could elicit as much whining as wonder. But 30 km beyond Angkor Wat is an exquisite mountain region of waterfalls, ancient wreckage and riverbed carvings that leave visitors of any age in awe?although trying to explain the thousand stone phalluses to the youngsters might present a challenge...
...external experience—without marginalizing community voices. The state commission should enlist several private firms and professors to present varied and broad-based recommendations while leaving the decision to act on those recommendations in their hands of elected officials. By pitting these proposals against one another, Philadelphia can reap the same benefits that would come from outsourcing its actual operations while empowering the community to take part in reinvigorating local schools...
Last year he was an unregistered “bandit” runner—a marathoner who participates without actually qualifying for the event—but this year he was able to reap the goodies that come from being an official participant...
...recruiting efforts have already started to reap rewards. Freshman center Tom Cavanagh was the hero in the ECAC semifinal against Clarkson. A night later, it was sophomore winger Tyler Kolarik who potted the overtime winner to claim the ECAC title over Cornell...
...President Ali Abdullah Saleh has been a reluctant U.S. partner. The FBI complains that Yemeni authorities cooperated only "grudgingly and slowly," as one official puts it, with the investigation of the 2000 bombing of the U.S.S. Cole in Aden. Since Sept. 11, Saleh, looking to strengthen his rule and reap economic aid by cooperating, has apparently had a change of heart. Still, there is a risk the presence of U.S. forces will provoke extremists in Yemen to new terrorist acts...