Word: sprang
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After three days, my computer sprang back to life, chipper, as if nothing had happened. I found myself wishing that a hard snow would fall on Seattle. Bill Gates and his geek brigades, I thought, need to sit in the dark for a while, or to light oil lamps and catch up on their reading...
Donna Smith, 41, of Springfield, Pa., acknowledges that her eating disorder sprang from a need to rein in her sometimes out-of-control life. Smith, a bookkeeper and part-time yoga instructor, had struggled with bulimia as a teenager and resorted to it occasionally as an adult. But the disorder returned with a vengeance three years ago when her estranged father resurfaced after a 20-year absence, then died. Smith coped by resuming her old self-destructive ways. By the summer of 2003, she carried less than 100 lbs. on her 5-ft. 3-in. frame. Only after...
...coral and shell. Since then, earthquakes have pushed the shore about 800 m away, and the burial ground is now on private land used in recent times for cattle grazing, surrounded by a green tide of dense bush, vine and coconut palms. Some time later a village, now vanished, sprang up on top of the graves, perhaps as memory of them faded. Animal bones have been found with the remains, and large pieces of Lapita pottery appear to have been broken and placed in the grave pits. Flat pieces of coral had been placed where their heads once were, each...
...worlds found in many of his fellow ni-Vanuatu: a Western-dressed world traveler with a mobile phone and a partnership in the island's most upmarket resort, he consults healers who specialize in ridding people of curses, and talks with the spirits from which his island sprang...
...could then cultivate the support to inspire cross-cultural understanding. For instance, schools throughout the West should teach how Islamic civilization helped give birth to the European Renaissance. Some of the first universities in recorded history sprang up in 3rd century Iran, 9th century Baghdad and 10th century Cairo. The Muslim world gave us mocha coffee, the guitar and even the Spanish expression olé! (which has its root in the Arabic word Allah). Muslim students would learn there is no shame in defending the values of pluralism. Non-Muslim students would learn that those values took great inspiration from Islamic...