Word: greenness
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...them as a reward, Meera, already four months along, aborts. Suri's description of the procedure, in a scuzzy room above a bathroom-fixtures shop, is macabre and grating, but typical of his hyper-realistic prose, which animates the best parts of the novel with its frankness. "Scabs of green paint were peeling off the wall and ceiling," and a "strong meaty odor, like that from a fatty cut of mutton boiled in a curry, emanated from the door...
...years. From 1875 to 1975 internationally accepted records suggest that the average global temperature rose by a total of just 0.2ºC. It was only the 0.5ºC rise recorded in the fourth quarter of the last century that produced the hysteria that has sparked this gold rush among green entrepreneurs and investors...
There may well be a green business opportunity. But my advice to would-be investors is this: make sure you get out before the bubble bursts...
...elementary school was destroyed, taking with it the lives of more than 400 students. The green mountains that surround the town look as if they have been clawed by angry giants; landslides have stripped the slopes bare, burying roads and dumping tons of rock and soil into the nearby Min River. At one entrance to the town a raised highway has been cut down like a ribbon. At the other end a car sits in an intersection, crushed by a boulder. A traffic police station tilts at a nauseating angle. Most of the town has been cleared of bodies...
...halted the fighting last week. Under the agreement, Iraqi forces are now allowed to enter Sadr City to pursue any so-called rogue militia cells not following the cease-fire and to conduct searches for heavy weapons like the mortars and rockets routinely flung from Sadr City toward the Green Zone...