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...Gogan said. “People don’t eat all their food.” Custodians and yard garbage collectors will see a rat every two or three months, according to Gogan. They “learn to go around and kick the barrels before they dump them” to scare away rats, he said. —Staff writer Shifra B. Mincer can be reached at smincer@fas.harvard.edu...
FOUND DEAD. TOM FOX, 54, American peace activist who, with three colleagues, was taken hostage in Iraq in November. Fox's battered body turned up in a Baghdad dump. So far, at least 55 foreign hostages have been killed by their captors in Iraq...
...biological weapons. To the east is one of the world's largest nerve-gas incinerators. To the north is a giant magnesium plant, a major polluter. To the northwest sit a hazardous-waste incinerator and a toxic-waste landfill. The tribe's only profitable business is a municipal garbage dump serving Salt Lake City...
...drilling. I used to laud the proud Alaskan moose and the Pacific seal at City Hall every Earth Day. But no more. Damn penguins. Two hours of penguins mating and dying is enough to make you eat veal, stop cutting the rings on your soda can packaging, and dump oil into the Caspian sea. I’m an unwilling convert, but perhaps with a cheap handle of rum and a bottle of Coke, you can avoid my crisis of confidence. TAKE A SHOT… 1. Whenever the cameraman zooms in dramatically on a penguin’s feet...
...Preval had threatened a legal battle over charges of massive fraud, citing tens of thousands of ineligible and blank ballots. His point was underscored later on Tuesday when supporters discovered thousands of apparently legitimate ballot papers and electoral material containing votes for Preval that had been tossed in a dump just outside the capital...