Word: backwash
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...they win the National Hockey League championship, the delirious members of the victorious team invariably pass the Stanley Cup around the ice and essentially make out with the silver trophy. It's pretty gross. After all, don't these guys know that during its 116-year history, liters of backwash have sloshed around the Cup as countless players and fans chugged champagne out of this glorified keg? Don't they know that at least one dog - and a Kentucky Derby-winning thoroughbred - have slurped chow from the Cup? And that both infants and inebriated adults have literally treated the Stanley...
...weekend column, Dowd sought to highlight the irony of the Republicans' holding House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's feet to the fire for not opposing Republican policies on torture aggressively enough. Interesting as this line of thinking might have been, it subsequently drowned in the backwash of controversy over her almost verbatim use of a 43-word paragraph that had already appeared in a column written by Josh Marshall on the political website Talking Points Memo. (Read about how to save your newspaper...
Some 900 miles south, at the tip of the Baja peninsula, the luxury resort area known as Los Cabos, is also suffering the drug backwash. But the issue there is not drug wars, but the kidnapping of the high-end tourist trade, which it has sought the last 10 years...
...This thermoplastic polymer is used in many products, including water containers High-density polyethylene is a softer, opaque plastic made from petroleum These bottles are made of durable and light stainless steel inside and out Potential problems PET degrades with use, and wrinkled surfaces can host germs--as can backwash Studies show polycarbonates can leach a potentially harmful synthetic hormone Scientists and health advocates have reported no known problems with HDPE Stainless steel doesn't leach or react. But avoid freezing or filling with hot water Should I reuse this bottle? No. Use it as it's intended: once. Recycle...
...huge difference is that there is no varsity frisbee or varsity rugby team, so they get all the really intense people on that team and all the really intense alumni,” Blair says. “We get the backwash of burned-out field hockey players who just want to play around, so that is not a sustainable model...