Word: seeds
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Astronomer I. M. Levitt, director of the Pels Planetarium of Philadelphia's Franklin Institute, believes that colonizers of the moon will eventually produce their own water, a contained atmosphere, food and other necessities completely from lunar materials. He envisages vegetables grown from seed, rooted in tanks of water in which the necessary lunar minerals have been dissolved. His moon colonies, complete with farm animals and factories, launch pads and lunar surface vehicles, and the comforts of home, would be located underground?in sealed-off caves and domes?to protect inhabitants against meteors, solar radiation and the extremes of lunar temperatures...
...retaliation, Chinese merchants have already raised prices on many goods to Malay buyers and cut off paja (credit), by which many a Malay farmer buys seed for his next crop. More ominous still, the conflict, at first only an urban affair, is spreading to the countryside. Chinese-owned pickup trucks have ceased collecting the fishing catch from the Strait of Malacca. The eagerly awaited season for durian, a large and delectable strong-scented fruit grown only in Asia, is now at its peak. In any other year, Malay farmers would make small fortunes on this rare fruit. Last week durians...
Rocky Jarvis, the Harvard number two singles player clobbered Amherst's Rick Steketee, the Lord Jeff's top man and the tournament's third seed, in the semifinal round. 6-3, 6-3, and from that point, the singles became a Harvard practice session. Crimson captain John Levin whipped teammate Terry Oxford, who had played beautiful tennis all weekend, 6-1, 6-4 to gain the finals, then defeated Jarvis 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 to retain his individual singles title...
...Maxwell was called to President Quincy's office to explain the incident; two days later he again was called before the President, and when he left the second time he had requested permission to withdraw from the University. If in those days the administration knew that from small seeds large and disruptive oak trees grow, they failed to detect a seed in this incident...
These are the principles by which Ethel believes Bobby lived. They are the principles she intends to carry forward. "Sometimes a seed has to die before it takes," she says. "I will bring up the children the way he would have wanted. He has already established the pattern. They all understand that they have a special obligation. They've been given so much; they must try to give that again. Bobby's life, for example: how much more meaning it had because of what he was able to do in Bedford-Stuyvesant. The people who can't be bothered about...