Read the excerpt from "gm food: fuel for our future.” also, crops can be genetically engineered to be more nutritious. golden rice, for example, has been altered to have more vitamin a than spinach. this is important because according to scientific american, "vitamin a deficiency causes more than one million deaths annually and half a million cases of irreversible blindness in the developing world.” golden rice alone could save millions of lives and prevent blindness. overall, our growing world desperately needs gm food to survive. the food these crops produce costs less and is safer and more nutritious than anything you could get from a traditional crop. as you can see, the benefits of gm food outweigh the far-fetched, unsubstantiated risks that critics have put forth. which phrases from the excerpt support the author’s argument that genetically modified food is safe? check all that apply. more vitamin a

Match the definition to the word for a better understanding of the paragraph. 1 money does not buy happiness or security. 2john ringling, one of the five brothers of the ringling brothers circus, started out in 1884 with a trained horse and a performing bear. 3for over forty years, he worked hard at the family enterprise, bought up smaller circuses, and imported new acts. 4in the 1920s, he was rated as one of the world's wealthiest men and owned every sizable circus in the country. 5over 5,000 people were on his payroll, and over 240 railroad cars were in his retinue each time the circus moved. 6at the time of his death, however, he was a nervous, unhappy man; he was also bankrupt and beset by lawsuits. 7his carefully built circus empire passed into alien hands. 8all those years of work had turned to dust. 1. business organization alien 2. group beset 3. without funds to pay debts retinue 4. troubled or harassed enterprise 5. strange; belonging to another person, place, country, or thing bankrupt

What does the birdcage symbolize in trifles?

Decide whether each group of words is a clause or a phrase