Word: thrive
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...details were puzzling. Why would Sunni insurgents, who generally favor stand-off tactics like suicide bombings, mortar attacks and roadside bombs, make a target of themselves by massing hundreds of fighters deep in the Shi'a heartland? Why would Shi'a militias, which thrive on the support of the towns and neighborhoods from which they spring, stake a claim to a patch of farmland outside Najaf...
...Rome, the world has a Greek Catholic Church, a Russian Catholic Church and an English Catholic Church. The time is ripe for an American Catholic Church. The U.S. bishops should begin now to circumvent the archaisms of Rome and formulate a relevant church in which all American Catholics can thrive in their religious lives. Emily Langford Bennett Princeton...
...Achievement Center, located at a local college, for kids who have fallen behind and would be older than their classmates. Shawn wasn't one of the 30 students enrolled at the center, but reaching out to older kids who for a variety of social and academic reasons don't thrive in high schools is a crucial first step in lowering the dropout rate...
...trees can process between five and 10 tons of CO2 each year. But the longer the time span, the harder the absorption is to predict. Some companies, such as London's Carbon Clear, say they invest not just in planting trees, but also in ensuring they thrive. But others may not be so diligent and disease, fire and logging can all shorten a tree's life. "You can never be sure the atmosphere sees the benefit," says Dietrich Brockhagen, managing director of atmosfair, a Berlin-based offset provider that avoids reforestation schemes...
...firmer or cuter, but to increase your absorption of calories, so you get fatter on the same amount of food. They don't care any more about your waistline than mice, or your holiday visitors, care about whose house this is. They just know that in a fatso, they thrive...