Word: sowing
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...blaze moved toward Santa Cruz, a nudist camp in its path was evacuated, scores of animals were rescued, including a wildly oinking 600-lb. sow, and lone fire fighters in the hilly terrain made desperate last stands against the flames with garden hoses. Nine helicopters churned overhead, dumping water when necessary and lowering equipment to the fighters below...
Nearly a month ago, we intimated on this page that the Faculty should have recognized that neither a lack-of-confidence nor a no-confidence vote (as well as calls for Summers’ resignation) would be effective—except as a vehicle to sow more division. The very wording of the “lack” of confidence vote—as opposed to a less widely supported “no” confidence—suggests especially that this vote was more about divisive power politics than about the actual sentiment expressed. The Harvard Corporation...
...Danish biotech company has developed a new way to detect land mines using genetically modified THALE CRESS, a member of the mustard family. The plant turns a deep red when exposed to nitrogen dioxide, a gas released by mines. The grow-anywhere green, which scientists propose to sow from airplanes or handheld seed-shooters in heavily mined areas, could prove an inexpensive and safe solution for land mine detection?a boon to countries like Cambodia, which harbors an estimated four million mines...
With insurgents promising to sow chaos on election day, the mere act of casting a ballot has become a life-threatening proposition. Even in the holy city of Najaf, in the heart of largely Shi'ite southern Iraq, there are palpable fears of election-related violence. "Every day I watch when a car pulls up in the street," says Abbas Hamid Abdul Rezea as U.S. Marines erect concrete barricades across the road from his home at a school that will serve as a polling station. "Every day we are so scared...
...worked like this. He’d say something that needed the approval of the group—like “you’ve got to sow the seed”—and then he’d say “amen?!” like he was asking for our approval. Our job was to say “amen” back at him. If he didn’t hear enough responses, he’d start picking out individuals from the crowd of about 100 people and asking them individually...