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...early '90s in Australia, the coach of a high-profile rugby league team decided that the best way for his men to bond would be through an activity that had been one of his favorites as a player: in the build-up to a big match a prostitute would be summoned to a hotel room where numerous players would take turns having sex with her while the others watched. But on this occasion the coach blundered. Having chosen to go first, he was surprised to see some of the younger players looking on with what appeared to be disgust...
...industry hundreds of millions of dollars—yet another instance of its characteristically lax laws with regard to big industry—but they won’t be able to address the real harm quickly enough. Without requiring across-the-board regulation, there will still be mercury build-up and concentrated areas of pollution; the substance will continue to taint our waters and affect our population...
Orthodox opinion in the Democratic Party holds that there was never any real linkage between Saddam Hussein’s regime and Osama bin Laden, and the Bush administration either “exaggerated” or outright lied about such a connection during the build-up to war. This assumption has become pervasive on talk shows and editorial pages. Indeed, many Democrats and liberal pundits speak as if the Baathist-al Qaeda connection had been conclusively refuted...
...fire appeared to originate in the exhaust flue of the stand-up broiler unit as a result of excessive grease build-up,” Higgins said. “The fire extended out of the duct work at the chimney connection and into the wood framing members in the basement, and into the walls...
...working on several ideas to combat corrosion, including protective coatings and cathodic protection - attracting corrosive chemicals to electrically charged plates of a dissimilar metal, known as sacrificial anodes, by running a weak electric current through the framework. The blades themselves will be cleaned with every rotation, to avoid a build-up of animal and plant life. Even with its unresolved issues, the system is a huge improvement over past methods of harnessing tidal energy, which aren't cost efficient and are also clumsy - they tend to create problems of silting and interfere with shipping and wildlife. Though tidal stream generation...