Too many times they feel like they were duped by people coming in from the outside with a solution, implementing it, and then going away before it really took root.

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In the wild, where individuals of a species are dotted around and have to be sought out by their predators, having a few leaves nibbled away is a minor nuisance compared with having your root system strangled and poisoned by your neighbours.

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Two miles away, though, a Yiddish-speaking culture of a different kind took root and thrived: a township called Kirias Joel peopled by the Hasidic Satmarer sect, Jews at their most pious and least worldly.

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Her independent ways only get her in trouble, though, when a magic bean takes root underneath Jack's hovel and the entire shack goes right up, up and away, into the stratosphere, only stopping when it reaches the land of the giants.

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