[00:01]affect

[00:02]Studies of both animals and humans have shown

[00:06]that sex hormones somehow affect the stress response,

[00:12]causing females under stress to produce more of the trigger

[00:17]chemicals than do males under the same conditions.

[00:24]defect

[00:25]But this is a man whose company has sold more than

[00:28]20 million cars in the U.S. in the last decade, some of

[00:32]which now have a serious defect that has led to the deaths

[00:36]of at least 34 people.

[00:41]infect

[00:43]Researchers discovered that plants infected with a virus

[00:48]give off a gas that activates disease resistance in neighboring

[00:55]plants.

[00:57]flock

[01:00]In the United States, multitudes of premiums for new

[01:04]devices were awarded at country fairs and at the industrial

[01:10]fairs in major cities. Americans flocked to these fairs to

[01:17]admire the new machines and thus to renew their faith in

[01:22]the beneficence of technological advance.

[01:28]flour

[01:30]Everything here has a purpose, she says. Take the

[01:34]patches of winter wheat. When the farmers come in

[01:38]with their machines, they cut off the top and sell it to

[01:43]companies that make products like flour, then use the

[01:47]bottom for hay.

[01:53]heal

[01:54]Billy Bragg and I undoubtedly have very different

[01:58]views of the world’s problems — and I am certain that

[02:03]many of our prescriptions to heal those problems would

[02:08]differ even more.