Word: flattening
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...tried to establish peace treaties with the various factions (millipedes, moths and flies-oh my!) in order to set up a relatively peaceful balance of power. Case in point: if the "fishermen" of the lake agree not to include me in their breakfast hunt, I promise not to flatten any more of them. Unfortunately, we seem to lack a common means of communication, and our conflicts continue...
...members of the Circles Effect Research Unit, a privately funded group headed by Wiltshire-based physicist Terence Meaden. The group argued that a still unverified weather phenomenon is often responsible for the weird damage. It occurs, Meaden says, when whirling columns of air pick up electrically charged matter, flatten the crops below and produce the bright lights observers say they have seen above the circles...
Beginning in the mid-'80s, however, the momentum of the green revolution slowed dramatically, especially in parts of India, China and Pakistan. In India's Punjab state, yields of rice and wheat have begun to flatten despite increasing reliance on fertilizers and better use of water. Elsewhere in Asia, rice researchers have failed to raise yields significantly for more than two decades. Hidden costs of the green revolution have begun to surface all around the world: the amount of irrigated land, which produces 35% of the food supply, has been declining in per capita terms. One reason is that fields...
Because his public career lasted most of the 20th century, Picasso has been seen through many distorting filters. The latest is the complacent feminist critique that seeks to jettison the idea of the "great artist" and to flatten his work into stereotypes of patriarchy and misogyny. But where is the book that gives us the actual...
...cancers. Both basal-cell and squamous-cell carcinomas arise from the most common skin cells, the keratinocytes, which form at the base of the epidermis and work their way toward the surface. Near the base, they are plump and are called basal cells. But as they move outward, they flatten to become the squamous cells that form the skin's tough, protective surface. Melanomas spring from melanocytes, cells that produce pigment...