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...rural northern Nigeria, there are no refrigerators. Most people don't even have electricity. So perishable food must be eaten immediately, or it will go to waste. Mohammed Bah Abba, a local teacher, has developed an ingenious solution: the Pot-in-Pot Preservation Cooling System. A small earthenware pot is placed inside a larger one, and the space between the two is filled with moist sand. The inner pot is filled with fruit, vegetables or soft drinks; a wet cloth covers the whole thing. As water in the sand evaporates through the surface of the outer pot, it carries heat...
...proceeds from the event going to finish the film and half to the Good Samaritan Home. The 20 minutes of loosely edited footage they have so far are full of images of uncomfortable everyday intimacy: a child’s head being shaven, a skinned rabbit hanging to be eaten, children standing around a murdered corpse. In the slums of a city where 100,000 children live on the streets, former street children talk with bruised toughness of their days sniffing glue. Now, sitting in a classroom, they are told that God will free them from sadness...
Last Tuesday, Don Gorske ate his 18,000th Big Mac. Hes eaten at least two of them every day since...
...have neither the humor nor the sex appeal to carry it off. And then it only gets worse. “The Great Society” sounds like Pink Floyd if you stole their sense of irony, humor, musicianship and possibly hearing as well: “Space has eaten up your face / You won’t need it anyway.” At their best, on “Wings of Light,” they sound like your little brother’s band trying to be Thom Yorke. “100,000 Telescopes?...
...dear, it seems that a large rabid T-Rex named “thesis” has eaten my senior-year pie, dripping warm cherry filling all over my new winter white corduroys! “Shoot him! Shoot him!” I cry to no avail. The beast, unsatisfied with having eaten my pie, moves on to its next victim with that “no summa for you” grimace and “overdue library book fine” growl...