An environmentally conscious population labels the phenomenon of land degradation in Australia (specifically, the erosion of top-soil and salination caused by irrigation after deforestation) as AIDS of the earth; the same metaphor is used in America.

He sunk beneath the cumbrous weight.

There has been a trend among medical schools to eliminate the gross anatomy lab dissection, replacing it with a (far less time-consuming) study of predissected, preserved prosections and computerized simulations.

The Van Pere patronship at Berbice Another seventeenth-century Dutch colony in Guiana that had significance for the slave trade was located on the Berbice River. … the colony … was allowed to continue as a family patronship.