Word: cropped
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Childhood innocence doesn't crop up much these days in serious fiction. Perhaps Freud is to blame, or maybe William Golding, whose Lord of the Flies dramatized the pre-Romantic notion that young folks deprived of civilization will naturally turn into savages. Even children's books now tend to shun wide-eyed wonder and to feature instead little sophisticates dealing knowingly with various forms of family dysfunction...
...want to spark a heated debate at a dinner party, bring up the topic of genetically modified foods. For many people, the concept of genetically altered, high-tech crop production raises all kinds of environmental, health, safety and ethical questions. Particularly in countries with long agrarian traditions--and vocal green lobbies--the idea seems against nature...
Creative Memories, based in St. Cloud, Minn., trains consultants in scrapbooking techniques. It certified 49,000 last year, a fourfold increase over 1996. These consultants then teach at "crop parties" (named after the cropping, or trimming, of photos) where they peddle the products of Creative Memories. There is even a place called the Scrap & Spa in Union Pier, Mich., on the shore of Lake Michigan, that offers a weekend of massages, pedicures and scrapbooking for $215. It's booked solid through November...
...Along with Yu, a new crop of promising first-years proved themselves by winning the Nickerson Trophy for the New England Freshman Championship title...
Apart from Harvard's plentiful crop of Truman scholars--who are obliged to take a governmental job in D.C. for the summer, at least--it's difficult to find anyone who'll be working inside the Beltway...