Word: filth
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...Wardrobe” recently arrived in theatres. If you read the book as a kid, or, like me, had it read to you, you would very likely be surprised by some of the ink that has recently been spilled over its screen adaptation. In a culture corrupted by filth and overflowing with movies whose artistic merit is alternately minimal or non-existent, it is odd that a film and a story as well-crafted and as beautiful as “Narnia” have been the target of such vitriol...
...capture climate-warming greenhouse gases. Cinergy and American Electric Power are each working with GE and Bechtel to design power plants that would burn manmade "natural gas" derived from coal. The gasification process, which is also the first step in turning coal to diesel, would strip much of the filth and toxicity from coal before it's burned. Tampa Electric already uses this kind of technology at its Polk Power Station, which started out in the mid-90s as a joint project with the Energy Department...
...belong to that community as much as anyone else, and from day to day, it may be said that they give more to us than even the university’s most generous donors. If they all folded their arms today, Harvard would simply cease to function amid the filth...
...rearing our children; television is. The whole culture has ripped away parental authority. So the children today are undisciplined, out of control. This is a real weight on parents when their authority is eroded and the influence on their children 24-7 is violence, decadence and filth...
Those Harvard undergraduates from New Orleans contacted by The Crimson this week were all out of town for research and vacations, or they had heeded Mayor C. Ray Nagin's plea to evacuate, sparing themselves the looting, filth, and chaos that would eventually overtake the devastated city in the wake of the storm. Floodwaters have breached city levees, and Nagin has estimated that 80 percent of the city is underwater...