Word: seed
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Like the council, the Office of the Arts cannot continue to support established groups like Citystep. The Office of the Arts has a total of $10,000 to be used for grants, Mayman says, so it must award a limited number of grants as "seed money" to new groups starting...
...contest matched two unbeaten New England teams vying for the number three seed in the upcoming New England Championships...
...captured the seed with the victory and is seeded behind Dartmouth and Brown, while Harvard must now settle for the tournament's fifth seed...
These threatened ecosystems have already proved a valuable source of medicines, foods and new seed stock for crops. Nine years ago, for example, a strain of perennial, disease-resistant wild maize named Zea diploperennis was found in a Mexican mountain forest, growing in three small plots. Crossing domestic corn varieties with this maize produces hardy hybrids that should ultimately be worth billions of dollars to farmers. A great many of the prescription drugs sold in the U.S. are based on unique chemical compounds found in tropical plants. For example, vincristine, originally isolated from the Madagascan periwinkle, is used to treat...
Harvard's Bill Stanley rallied to edge Brown's Tim Donovan in A-flight singles, 3-6, 6-1, 7-5 at the Harvard-hosted New England Tournament Saturday. Donovan, the tourney's number-one seed, had defeated second-seeded Stanley twice last season...