Word: carpets
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...causing wetlands to release centuries' worth of collected mercury in one toxic breath. "There's mercury that's been accumulating since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution," says ecosystems ecologist Merritt Turetsky of Michigan State University, who has been studying the problem. "During droughts, you get a meter-thick carpet of dry peat in some places, and all you need then is a match. Lightning usually provides that...
Then again, maybe we're just desperate to find an upside to those blue and red paint spots all over the living-room carpet...
...open-plan house that Zig built himself in his spare time, with a little help from family and friends. "We lived in the shed for a year," says Jennifer, who'll miss the Sydney bluegum floorboards-secret-nailed-most of all. "But the new owners have promised not to carpet over them." She's sad, but looking ahead. "This," she says, "is our sea change...
...giving the world an unblinking, and often unflattering, view of celebrity shenanigans. "We report things as soon as we learn them and can confirm them," the website's general manager, Alan Citron, says. "I think that and the unvarnished nature of our coverage, which isn't the standard red-carpet grip-and-grin, has made us stand out in the crowd...
...hill town emerge into the sunlight and stare at the desolation around them. The heart of their usually thriving market town has been turned into rubble and bomb craters. "I don't want to talk. I just want to get out," says one woman as she stumbles across the carpet of shattered masonry that covers what is left of the high street...