Word: rifts
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This movement serves to create an artificial rift over a social policy that the vast majority of us agree on: the need for a minimum wage...
...birds could spread the lethal h5n1 virus - which can jump to humans and has killed at least 60 people in Asia so far, including a chicken farmer in Thailand last week - to domestic poultry in Africa. According to Ethiopian geneticist Tadelle Dessie, huge flocks migrating to lakes in the Rift Valley pose a threat. Where poultry is kept outdoors, the risks are great, he says. The fao fears wild birds wintering in Africa might bring the disease north to Europe next spring. But some scientists think the threat is exaggerated. "Everyone seems to think that it's going to happen...
...waging an "assault on Islam." And in return, Westerners find many Muslim practices abhorrent and oppressive. One has to ask whether our cultures have any common ground. A reminder of the fact that God belongs to all religions might help bring people together and help heal the rift that sadly is getting larger...
...produce such a range of smells. In the absence of “evidence,” we developed a couple theories that seem pretty solid: 1) The ghost of John Harvard haunts students in their daily meanderings, cutting ass so hard that the smell manages to open a rift between the phantom realm into the material world, like Keanu Reeves’ in that movie. 2) It is the new terrorism, designed to make living in the city vaguely irritating until one day you just lose it and say, “Punk this, I’m going...
...minds of students, workers, or living-wage advocates—the consequence is stark. As long as there ultimately exists some difference in monetary worth between Harvard’s lowest-paid workers and other members of the community (and there surely will), so too will there exist a rift in the human worth accorded to members of each of those two groups.The notion is more intuitive than the formal argument makes it seem: when a Harvard student knows that the University has allocated a greater portion of his or her fees to pay the wage of a janitor...