Word: litter
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...Back on the border in Termez, ill-kept former Soviet tank firing ranges litter the desert. Broken barbed wire marks the outskirts of a separate military installation. Few people are on the streets. The banging of ripped corrugated iron against concrete supports is the only sound competing with the ever-wailing wind. In the bar room on the ground floor of the Hotel Surkhon, the town's lone oasis, a few young men are drinking beer and vodka chasers around the pool table. The melody, Things Can Only Get Better, booms from the audio system. It's a tenuous hope...
Bullet holes riddle the walls of mosques in Florida and Texas. Hate graffiti and broken glass litter the sight of many Muslim-owned businesses around the country. At numerous American colleges, Muslim students have received death threats. An acquaintance of mine, who has first and last names of Arab derivation, was fired without explanation from his hardware store job last week, two days after the attack...
Wednesday morning, Mary Jo Clark runs a daycare center out of her 32 Crescent Street home. Plastic play structures and baby strollers litter the front yard and porch. At 8:15 a.m., two children have already been dropped off to spend their day with Clark. The little girl sits on Clarkâs lap and giggles at Sadie, the golden retriever, while the little boy plays with trains under a table...
...trailed him from one Taiwan concert to the next. (In return, each year around his birthday, Lau attends parties thrown by his fan clubs.) If fans don't stalk the stars, the insatiable paparazzi do. "They follow me everywhere," says Leslie Cheung. "I don't even put my litter outside the house anymore. People try to find things and sell them...
...sight once you're inside. The gardens, the ornamental fountains. The minarets, the enormous marble arches. It is big enough, still white enough, as it stands against a clear skyline. The symmetry is perfect. But as soon as this impression passes, the details settle in. Plastic bottles litter the lawns; the canals are dirty; guides offering tours for an inflated price are maddeningly insistent. The colored engravings are chipped and in places have fallen off. In the basement, the graves of the Emperor and his beloved are off limits, the entrance blocked with untidy wire mesh. The inner sanctum smells...