Word: food
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...puts them on the makeshift clay oven which uses cowdung cakes for fuel, has the oven blow up on him, salvages the remnants, eats them and promptly falls sick since the vegetables were rotten in the first place due to poor quality controls in agricultural production and no food packaging industry to speak...
...quick fixes to solving endemic problems in living standards. It requires the constant inflow of many thousands of the best and the brightest (what we at Harvard purport to be) dedicating themselves to the systems that will develop the seed varieties and better production techniques to grow more food, develop the packaging to guarantee its freshness, build the roads and the trucks to distribute it efficiently and design the technologically sophisticated ovens to cook it. Business people all over the world are driving all of the these functions...
...Rose Leonard, a blond pixie and "hunter-in-training" who accompanies her father, a logger, when he hunts for food in northern Minnesota, reports that "my favorite part is taking time to wait and see what you're hunting for. Sometimes you have to wait a long time. You have to be quiet. You have to be patient." This from an eight-year...
...Essay, I think it is important to consider the consequences of colonizing the moon before we rush to fulfill our "lust for the frontier." For some of us, the moon still represents dreams and romance. How would we feel if it were covered with golf courses, motels and fast-food joints? CRAIG HANSEN Fujishi, Japan...
There can be problems with this approach, however. For one thing, the Food and Drug Administration has approved antidepressants for only adult use. It's perfectly legal for doctors to make them available to children, but such "off-label" prescribing can be tricky. When a drug is tested and a dosage is set for an adult body, the same medication given to a person half the size can have unexpected effects. Antidepressants can lead to agitation and nervousness in anyone; in children, they may trigger full-blown manic episodes...