The dry conditions are already presenting challenges for those growing essential crops like wheat and means there is less grass for livestock, our correspondent added.

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What is more, caesium particles tend to lurk in the grass, which means radiation is more of a risk at toddler height than for adults.

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Real school choice, with real grass-roots, bottom-up reform means that a community of people who care about their public goods deeply want to work to make those goods better.

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Everyone agrees that the grass-roots insurrection against the Republican Party's official candidate means something significant, but exactly what it means depends on who's asked.

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Shanzhai culture "is from the grass roots and for the grass roots, " says Han Haoyue, a media critic in Beijing, who sees it as a means of self-expression.

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