Word: dungeness
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...dust mite, a microscopic insect that thrives by the millions wherever dust collects in a house. Living on sloughed-off flecks of human skin (dander) and other unappetizing protein, it leaves droppings that are about the size of pollen grains -- and just as easy to inhale. Mite dung, unfortunately, is an allergen that produces the familiar sneezing, coughing, itching symptoms in half of all people who have allergies...
...from molds that grow on irregularly cleaned evaporative coolers and humidifiers -- can be circulated throughout the structure, bringing on the familiar allergic symptoms often attributed to "sick-building syndrome." In houses, keeping air-treatment units free of molds will not suffice; sealed-in, circulating cat dander and dust-mite dung often more than compensate for the absence of spores...
Nausea? Little wonder. The glistening balls mistaken for a snack that day in Nevada were later identified as pack-rat middens -- globs of crystallized pack-rat urine containing sticks, plant fragments, bones and animal dung. Still, while the middens failed to make the grade as cuisine, they have begun to excel in another role -- as a kind of natural time capsule...
Although the earthy Aldonza cannot understand why Don Quixote does not see that "the world is a dung heap and we are the maggots that live on it" and really cannot understand why he thinks she is a virgin, Quixote's idealism grows on her, as it does on the audience. He may be insane--he sees rags as "gossamer" and seeks to be knighted, although there have been no knights for 300 years--but he sure is happy. His unshakable faith shows us that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" and helps Aldonza become the woman that...
William Parish is bullish on energy -- literally. Ten months ago, the former California real estate lawyer opened the first commercial plant designed to produce electricity by burning cattle dung. Situated near El Centro, Calif., the Mesquite Lake Resource Recovery Project generates 17.5 MW per hr. -- enough to power 15,000 homes -- and sells most of it under a 30-year contract to Southern California Edison...