Word: sprung
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Water, not oil, is the most precious fluid in our lives, the substance from which all life on the earth has sprung and continues to depend. If we run short of oil and other fossil fuels, we can use alternative energy sources. If we have no clean, drinkable water, we are doomed. As the 6 billion passengers aboard Spaceship Earth enter a complex new century, few issues are as fundamental as water. We are falling far short of the most basic humanitarian goals: sufficient and affordable clean water, food and energy for everyone. "I cannot bear to watch the nations...
...Even I, a lowly Mets fan from New Jersey, have always observed opening day with reverence, but the temple was not Shea Stadium, but Albion Park in Clifton, N.J. Baseball season was not baseball season and springtime had not yet sprung unless I, too, was on the ballfield...
...Rules for Marriage comes across like an Archie comic book, and the Rules girlfriends--authors Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider--are the Betty and Veronica of relationship advice. After their successful first book on dating, The Rules, a whole industry has sprung up around their method for "meeting and marrying Mr. Right." Their accumulated wisdom on the topic of marriage involves urging wom- en to be "cheerleaders" for their husbands and "when it comes to sex, husbands rule the roost," meaning they should control its frequency. In real life, Fein is getting divorced from her husband of 16 years. Despite...
...million to $5 million?on every note cashed in. "It is the scam du jour," says U.S. Secret Service agent David Popp, a former White House bodyguard now stationed in Manila to protect U.S. monetary instruments against an onslaught of hustles, swindles and fakes that have sprung up in the Philippines...
...first nationwide program; it charges computer users a $30 shipping-and-handling fee to take even an ancient PC off their hands. Hewlett-Packard plans to launch its consumer-PC take-back program in March. Regional efforts--such as Sony's "recycling days" begun in Minnesota last fall--have sprung up from Oregon to New York...