Word: withers
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...highs. The Department of Agriculture said 14% of the crop in Illinois and Indiana, above, was in poor or very poor condition as of June 8. Nationwide, 1 in 10 corn plants had not yet emerged from the ground, indicating a worrisome late harvest for a crop that can wither easily in the summer heat. Overall, U.S. food prices are expected to rise 5% this year...
...particularly desirable,” she said.She added that she was primarily unsatisfied with the addition of numbers to her last name.Kimberly Chen ’08 faced a similar situation when she was offered only “chen14.” She said she was not unhappy wither her address, but she often receives e-mails sent to her mistakenly. “I get misdirected e-mail all the time, mostly for people who are looking for someone else,” she said. Students have complained about the seemingly random assignment of e-mail addresses...
When it comes to keeping your brain healthy - and working at its best - doctors have long advised patients to "use it or lose it." The idea is to keep the intellectual highways humming; if circuits aren't used, they tend to deteriorate and eventually wither away, leading to dementia, and in some cases,Alzheimer's. But new research provides a twist on this familiar advice - it turns out that some people benefit more from using it than others...
...north side?” Frederick replied. “Just a square of tilled soil in which nothing can grow, in which those shoots that do break through to the open air will soon find that the warmth will never touch them? They will give up, and wither, and die. Such a garden would soon be only of use or interest to ourselves, because therein we should recognize and acknowledge a metaphor—”“Don’t speak,” Felicity interrupted. She impaled her crumpet with a fork.The dispute continued...
Alberto Cisterna, a Calabrian anti-Mob prosecutor, says new, counterintuitive thinking is needed to overcome both the Mob and bad governance. Organized crime, like the politics of favoritism, will wither in influence, he says, when people start viewing it as a relic of the past. "The Mafia, like the old way of doing politics, is no longer able to satisfy people's primary needs," he says. "The trash in Naples is the failure of both systems...