When teachers guide students in gaining awareness that industrial agriculture writ large, for example, results in chemical runoff from nitrogen-based fertiliers in the Mississippi River that in turn creates a massive dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico so large that it is visible to the human eye through satellite distant imaging, students are able to grasp the basis for sustainable agriculture.

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One Saturday night almost exactly 22 years ago, my father had a massive heart attack and was dead before he hit the floor.

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Assaulted by climate change, massive air pollution, and biologically dead rivers, the cities of the South are becoming environmental disaster areas.

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Rodriguez, however, made history, hitting a massive 410-foot home run to dead center field, tying Ken Griffey Jr. for fifth place on the all-time home run list with 630 homers.

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Knowing such itineraries might help us to better understand the nature of massive die-offs (thousands of black birds falling dead out of the sky, for example), or of the itineraries of bio-invasives such as the Burmese Pythons in the Everglades.

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Not to say they all need to be point and click titles like The Walking Dead, but I think we need to get away from this idea that EVERY game needs to be massive and sprawling.

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