Word: regrow
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...really. It's something I can regrow anytime I want. You don't need a great deal of talent to grow a mustache...
What the air tankers are dumping is a fire retardant known as slurry, a mixture of mostly water and fertilizer designed to protect trees and other flammable material from flames. The coating clings to vegeation and insulates it from the approaching inferno; the fertilizer helps the damaged areas regrow in the wake of the blaze. The powdery concoction is a key ingredient of a multi-pronged firefighting strategy; after the air drop, bulldozers and ground crews move in to cut a fire break designed to halt the advancing flames...
...they have an array of devices to choose from. That wasn't the case 20 years ago, when R. Wayne Griffiths, a construction inspector whom some consider the granddaddy of foreskin restoration, jury-rigged a system out of two ball bearings, which he taped to his penis to regrow the skin in a year and a half. That was the prototype for Foreballs, which he now sells for $130 a pop. Griffiths' invention has been joined over the years by about a dozen competitors, which use tape, tension, suction, weights and straps to gently coax the skin to expand over...
...East Africa Regional Program Office. "But climate change has accentuated the difference between the seasons, making the rainy season shorter and heavier and the dry season hotter." When animals migrate to the Masai Mara every spring, it allows the vegetation they leave behind in the Serengeti to regrow, ready for them to come back in the fall. No rain means no new vegetation to return to. The animals stay put and the land can't cope: The grass stops growing, the animals die. And if it rains too much, "the water, which should be a source of rejuvenation, instead becomes...
...legs bearing as much weight as possible, to help him recognize sensory cues and to teach him such basics as how to swing his arms when he walks. And he has one more thing on his side: his age. Damaged central-nervous-system cells may not regrow readily, but the ones that survive a trauma can become more efficient, changing what is known as their central state of excitability--or the threshold at which even a sputtering signal can send them into action. "I don't think any scientist would dispute that a younger body is more plastic in this...