Word: tides
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What's the onething we cando as a nation to help turn the tide on global warming? We can give up the feeling of entitlement that pervades our society. We feel entitled to use a disproportionate amount of the world's resources, live in larger homes and drive larger cars, always thinking that bigger is better. The American Dream has become an environmental nightmare. As the greatest nation on earth, we should be leading by example...
...this year, so every race is a fight, and every week we need to work to get faster.” And the Black and White is doing just that. After leading against the Golden Bears last weekend but failing to close out the victory, the crew turned the tide on Saturday, coming from behind, finding its speed, and blowing by both Princeton and Cornell to win with a time of 6:54.9. The Tigers came in second with a time of 7:00.5, and Cornell pulled up the rear with a 7:22.7 posting. After trailing over the first...
...against him to the swamp reservation for two years. Every state also would select the two politicians with the severest condition and exile them for six years. Although this exile system has been in place for 226 years, it has simply slowed the infection rate instead of reversing the tide...
...crammed into an 8 m by 5 m shack located in the middle of a mosquito-infested mangrove swamp. Around them is a garbage tip of old tyres, tins and broken-up asbestos sheeting; human waste fills a network of stinking open drains that regularly overflow during high tide. Kumar and his wife bring in about $80 a week; a relative cares for the children, who do their homework by candlelight. "We only eat meat once a week," he says, while cooking on a smoky outdoor hearth. "Sometimes all we have to eat is rice...
...President himself, despite being secularists’ bête noir, is not the firebrand he’s made out to be. Bush may talk to god, and use religiously-charged language in public speeches, but his presidency has been far from a “tide of religiosity engulfing a once secular republic,” as the late Arthur Schlesinger Jr. hysterically claimed. In fact, Bush has offered little more than rhetorical support to right-wing causes. Opening government funding to faith-based charities—probably Bush’s most dramatic pro-religion action?...