Word: ladened
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...objective was regarded as a bold one." While unmanned U.S. and Soviet spacecraft had visited the inner planets, none had flown beyond Mars and braved the asteroid belt to reach Jupiter and the other outer planets. Indeed, many scientists feared that, in addition to the asteroids, the belt was laden with unseen particles that would collide with and destroy an intruding craft. But Pioneer 10 sailed through with nary a scratch...
...Jersey Conference of Mayors named Pascrell its Mayor of the Year for 1996, a sign of his prominence and popularity--and reason for incumbent Bill Martini to worry. At a time when Congress is wrestling with a federal deficit, Pascrell boasts of balancing Paterson's debt-laden budget--though he raised taxes to do it--and of creating a prevention-oriented health-care plan and a publicly financed home-building program...
About 60 kids from the Keylatch and Chinatown After School Programs of Phillip Brooks House (PBH) attended a Halloween party at Kirkland House, trick-or-treated in the Yard dorms and explored a haunted house in Annenberg Hall, before heading home with bags laden with candy...
While the Singhs have added soups, grape leaves stuffed with rice and spices and taboulen (a parsely and cracked wheat salad) to the menu over the past few months, the overall selection is still mostly limited to Cheese-laden Greek salad, hummos, and beef, chicken or lamb shisk-kabobs...
Unhappily for reefs, humans upset the balance between corals and their competitors in many ways. Consider the erosion that accompanies deforestation and agriculture. No longer restrained by tree roots, tons of soil laden with nitrogen and phosphate washes into rivers and then sweeps into the sea, forming a muddy plume that may be hundreds of miles long. As this nutrient-rich water flows over a reef, it stimulates the growth of all kinds of algae--including the microscopic diatoms and dinoflagellates that nourish such reef animals as the crown-of-thorns starfish. In recent years hordes of these coral-devouring...