Word: excrement
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...Ngan isn't worried about bird flu. In a Phnom Penh market stall encrusted with chicken excrement, the 30-year-old Cambodian sells live birds shipped fresh each morning from farms that border Vietnamese provinces that have been struck hard by the disease. But Ngan is confident her merchandise is safe. Her chickens "are exposed to the sunlight and can eat from the earth," she explains, "so the disease does not affect them." Besides, she adds, "only foreign chickens are affected, not the local ones...
...trouble. Kim Yong says that a friend of his was so desperate for food that he stole one of the prison guard's leather whips, soaked it in water, and then tried to eat it. Guards beat him to death with a stick smeared with human excrement...
...sense of conscience and compassion that made him painfully aware of the hurt he was causing. Sherry responds to that anguish by trying to find the sources in life for what was memorable in fiction, starting with a dusty old man in Mexico, his hand "caked with dried excrement," who, Sherry says, was central to The Power and the Glory. The trouble is, Greene's magic lies not in what he found on his travels but what he made of it. Searching for his initial inspirations is like scrambling after the hat out of which a conjurer pulled a rabbit...
...treat their country as a dump for hazardous waste. But the importers share blame?war-zone scrap is among the cheapest on the market?as do government regulators. "Look outside," says Akram, a supervisor at the Ghaziabad plant where the workers died, pointing to the rubbish-strewn and excrement-paved street next to the factory: "We can blame the world. But it's not like we help ourselves much, either...
...Massachusetts correctional system began to fail Geoghan early on. According to The New York Times, he endured guards’ taunting, contaminated food and excrement placed on his bed in the first prison he was placed. It has also been reported that the guards in the maximum security prison to which Geoghan was moved had been warned that Druce was acting suspiciously outside of Geoghan’s cell, well before the murder took place...