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...from the shantytown where Colosio was shot. Santiz, 66, sits barefoot in the dust of Tuxaquilja, a village of 600 people, picking corn off a cob to feed his chickens. The earth is dry, rocky, infertile. Roads are ruts, and there are few public services. Looking down at the dirt, he says in a mixture of Spanish and Tzeltal, the local Indian tongue, "This is where we are from. We cannot leave...
...mainstream media has been dishing up the dirt lately, much to our untrammeled glee. For example...
...simply present facts. He shows how paleoanthropologists actually work, how they uncover fossils (the hard part) and how they analyze what they've found (the harder part). The earliest hint that his team had discovered an especially ancient human ancestor was a single knee joint plucked from the African dirt. It was old -- carefully dated volcanic ash in nearby rocks proved that. But it took laborious work by anatomist Owen Lovejoy to prove the knee belonged to a biped -- and thus, not entirely apelike -- primate. Lucy turned up nearby a year later, but it took weeks to piece her jumbled...
...national headlines described it: drug deals transacted outside but not within; a sink swarming with roaches; a refrigerator filled with rotting and moldy food. An old-fashioned ice-cream crank perches incongruously on a shelf. At Melton's feet, mixed up in a pile of trash, dirt and other garbage, is some dried-up chopped beef. It's for the dog. "Son of a bitch only eats the best," explains Melton...
Indeed, conservative writers like William Safire and Rush Limbaugh, silent during the Reagan-Bush years, have more than picked up the slack with Clinton in the White House, When these journalists try to dig up dirt, their targets are almost always on the other side of the political spectrum. Liberals investigate conservatives, and vice versa. Those who complain of a bias in the media can only be justified if they are referring to the former section; and no conclusive of basis in the factual reporting section has been put forth...