Word: grewing
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...They were ordinary young men and women who grew up much too fast," Kelley said. "We pray that you may never have to make a choice...
Sprawl is understandable, maybe even unavoidable, in countries where the population is still growing rapidly. But it is more difficult to explain in the U.S. and other rich countries with lower birthrates. In Ohio the amount of land developed around urban areas between 1960 and 1990 grew more than five times as fast as the population...
...patrolman bridled at the practice of leaving polluters unmolested. Ron Gatto is a burly fireplug of a man with 21-in. (53-cm) biceps. He once bench-pressed a trophy-winning 575 lbs. (261 kg). Gatto grew up in Westchester County, just north of New York City. He joined the police in 1982 to fight the polluters who were despoiling the green landscapes and the reservoirs he had fished as a boy. Instead, he recalls, his bosses had him drive around and chase swimmers...
...kept his name and remained a friend and partner. Amory calls Hunter, 50, his "strategist." RMI was her idea. It was 1980; they were driving from California to New Hampshire for a teaching gig. Finances were not good. "I asked him what he wanted to do when he grew up," Hunter recalls. To make the world better through "design mentality," Amory replied. That credo--shorthand for high efficiency, no waste--has made RMI a global consulting and research firm with an annual budget close to $5 million...
...grew up on the edge of Washington's Rock Creek Park. The National Zoo was part of my stamping ground. I used to slip for miles through the forest, playing war, keeping to the creek, making myself invisible, until I crossed the water at the ford and headed up toward the elephants and the snake house. My older brother and I were feral, free-range children, independent at ages eight and ten in a way that seems strange or impossible now. We engaged from time to time in juvenile gang warfare. We had vicious rock fights with boys from another...