Word: sown
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...scorching June afternoon in Jhajjal village in southwestern Punjab, elderly men have gathered in a communal courtyard to quell the boredom of the long afternoon with a game of cards. The cotton crop has been sown, and the farmers have a few weeks' holiday before they must return to their fields. As with most small villages, everyone knows everyone else here, and the conversation centers around marriages and births. But these usually mundane topics have taken on a tragic twist, involving couples failing to conceive, children being born with genetic disorders, people of all ages succumbing to cancer. Nadar Singh...
...search for the source of America’s educational woes never flags,” the editors wrote. “This year we turn back to the secondary schools where are sown the problems that universities like Harvard later fall heir to, through no fault of their own. We will not stop there you may be sure. Tomorrow, kindergarten; the next day, the womb...
...involve violence. Their position undermines the legal system - society would collapse if everyone applied this principle for his own social grievance. And it is difficult, if not impossible, to distinguish between "nonviolent" and "violent" drug offenses. The seeds of violence - shattered lives, shattered bodies, broken homes - are sown every time illegal drugs "peacefully" pass from hand to hand. We indeed need a new script for the next act in the war on drugs. But we need people other than The Wire's creators to write it for us. John Hickey, New York City...
...involve violence. Their position undermines the legal system--society would collapse if everyone applied this principle for his own social grievance. And it is difficult, if not impossible, to distinguish between "nonviolent" and "violent" drug offenses. The seeds of violence--shattered lives, shattered bodies, broken homes--are sown every time illegal drugs "peacefully" pass from hand to hand. We indeed need a new script for the next act in the war on drugs. But we need people other than The Wire's creators to write...
...culture of Bonnie Fuller’s weekly feature, “Stars—They’re Just like US!” showing Ben Affleck pumping gas and Kate Hudson at supermarket. Within a month of Britney’s Super Bowl commercial, the seeds were sown for our collective consumption of her downward spiral. “The genius of Bonnie Fuller’s new approach was that almost any picture of a celebrity doing something ordinary would do,” the article says. Goodbye privacy, goodbye solipsism...