Word: excrementalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Such an operation, we soon learn, can be messy. In one case, a drug smuggler puts cocaine in a red balloon and flushes it down a toilet. At the end of the plumbing pipe sit two Santana lieutenants, who dutifully pick through excrement to retrieve the contraband...
...Wallace, president of the Chamber of Commerce of Southern New Jersey, and the suburbs provide the tax base: "Each without the other simply could not get along." But the argument that this is a fair trade is offensive to the people of south Camden whose neighborhood reeks of human excrement. Every year these residents, the majority of whom are poor, must pony up $275 for sewage treatment -- the same amount that rich suburbanites pay in communities with names like Tavistock and Haddonfield...
...then the proverbial excrement hit the fan. Yale's Lynn Rosenstrach and Lee Denley shocked the Crimson's 30th-ranked doubles tandem of Amy deLone and Jamie Henikoff in straight sets. In addition to tying the match, 1-1, the loss jeopardizes deLone and Henikoff's front-running position for an NCAA tournament doubles berth. The two seniors (23-9 overall) had seemingly clinched a berth--which is chosen by an NCAA committee--after defeating Boston College's Jennifer Lane and Pam Piorkowski and Princeton's Aila Winkler and Lauren Fortgang, their main competition for the spot...
Chickens typically travel a filthy path from the farm through the slaughterhouse. Stuffed 10 or 12 to a cage on the truck to the processing plant, they eat one another's germ-laden excrement and spread it on their feathers and skin. At the plant, the birds move rapidly along a disassembly line where they are killed, dropped in scalding water, mechanically defeathered and eviscerated, and chilled in huge water tanks that usually become contaminated. "This is really no different than putting these birds in your toilet," contends Gerald Kuester, a microbiologist with the Public Citizen advocacy group...
...mute. To keep myself from panicking, I imagined that I wasn't in an interview with 10 Harvard students smug in their knowledge that they knew so much more than me. I pretended I was a bird, soaring well overhead, flying free and fast and far and aiming my excrement right on the tops of their heads...