内容摘要：At the center in central Gaza, witnesses told the AP that Israeli troops fired tear gas and smoke grenades to disperse the crowds when aid ran out. AP video showed crowds of people returning from the site, some with carts full of boxes and many with nothing.

At the center in central Gaza, witnesses told the AP that Israeli troops fired tear gas and smoke grenades to disperse the crowds when aid ran out. AP video showed crowds of people returning from the site, some with carts full of boxes and many with nothing.

Stephanie Stevens and her daughter Lucia Stevens pick white corn in its early form known as green corn during a harvest on the Oneida Nation Reservation, Friday, Aug. 30, 2024, in Oneida, Wis. (AP Photo/Mike Roemer)Damage from heavy spring rains is visible in the field of white corn on the Oneida Nation Reservation, Friday, Aug. 30, 2024, in Oneida, Wis. (AP Photo/Mike Roemer)

Damage from heavy spring rains is visible in the field of white corn on the Oneida Nation Reservation, Friday, Aug. 30, 2024, in Oneida, Wis. (AP Photo/Mike Roemer)Zeise and her mother Laura Manthe, who helped found the organization, said that by growing corn communally, families can learn from each other. They can all chip in on the labor-intensive processes of sowing, weeding, picking cobs by hand, winnowing to separate the chaff from the grain and other tasks, Manthe and Zeise said. The group can also still have a substantial crop even if the animals get to some of it, and they have a better chance of surviving extreme weather events if they’re growing on a larger area of land.But even growing together was no match for this year’s spring inundation. Drive around Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan and there are a lot of farmers “whose corn looks horrible,” Manthe said. But commercially grown corn, which uses more uniform varieties than heirloom ones and is often genetically modified, is looking pretty good this time of year, she said.

Lea Zeise, one of Ohe·laku’s co-coordinators of the non-profit that works with the families planting crops, picks a cob of white corn in its early form known as green corn, during a harvest on the Oneida Nation Reservation on Friday, Aug. 30, 2024, in Oneida, Wis. (AP Photo/Mike Roemer)Lea Zeise, one of Ohe·laku’s co-coordinators of the non-profit that works with the families planting crops, picks a cob of white corn in its early form known as green corn, during a harvest on the Oneida Nation Reservation on Friday, Aug. 30, 2024, in Oneida, Wis. (AP Photo/Mike Roemer)

Lea Zeise, one of Ohe·laku’s co-coordinators of the non-profit that works with the families planting crops, right, and Stephanie Stevens bag up corn after picking white corn in its early form known as green corn during a harvest on the Oneida Nation Reservation, Friday, Aug. 30, 2024, in Oneida, Wis. (AP Photo/Mike Roemer)

Lea Zeise, one of Ohe·laku’s co-coordinators of the non-profit that works with the families planting crops, right, and Stephanie Stevens bag up corn after picking white corn in its early form known as green corn during a harvest on the Oneida Nation Reservation, Friday, Aug. 30, 2024, in Oneida, Wis. (AP Photo/Mike Roemer)Some spellers embrace the challenge. Faizan Zaki,

who’s competing again this year, was thrilled to hear Abitibi and Hoofddorp — a town in the Netherlands — in 2024 because he had seen those words before.Blanche Yang Li, 14, of Boulder, Colo., high fives her friends after correctly spelling her word as she competes during the first preliminary round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, Tuesday, May 27, 2025, in Oxon Hill, Md. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)g

Blanche Yang Li, 14, of Boulder, Colo., high fives her friends after correctly spelling her word as she competes during the first preliminary round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, Tuesday, May 27, 2025, in Oxon Hill, Md. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)g“There’s actually a section in Merriam-Webster that is dedicated to just geographical words, so sometimes when I’m tired from studying normal words, I take a break and I browse through that list of geographical words that they have,” said Faizan, a 13-year-old from Allen, Texas.