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...more for oranges and other fresh produce, as California growers survey the damage caused by a cold snap that destroyed as much as three-quarters of the state's citrus and hit nearly every other winter crop, from avocados to strawberries. The total cost to farmers could surpass the $700 million lost during a three-day freeze in December 1998, state agriculture secretary A.G. Kawamura said on Monday, the day before Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger asked for federal disaster relief from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Small Business Administration...
...field of candidates for Harvard’s next president whittles down to a final few, the names of better known university presidents and provosts as well as a law school dean may be on the lips of many observers. But few candidates surpass Richard in either academic leadership experience or charisma, current and past colleagues...
...conditions on the ground in Iraq are deteriorating so rapidly that even the Baker commission is struggling to keep up, several well-placed national-security sources told TIME. October was the deadliest month yet for Iraqi civilians since the start of the war, and November seems destined to surpass it. A Thanksgiving Day onslaught by Sunni militants killed more than 200 Iraqis, wounded hundreds and spurred a round of Shi'ite reprisals. As the Iraqi capital erupted in another frenzy of sectarian violence, the U.S. lost eight service members in a span of six days, bringing its death toll...
...expectations and admiration of his teammates surpass those...
...those alternative forms come back to the same root. Those kinds of faith recognize one thing, first of all, about the nature of God and humankind, and it is this: If God really is God, then God must, by definition, surpass our human understanding. Not entirely. We have Scripture; we have reason; we have religious authority; we have our own spiritual experiences of the divine. But there is still something we will never grasp, something we can never know--because God is beyond our human categories. And if God is beyond our categories, then God cannot be captured for certain...