Word: littering
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...misfortunes accorded the runt of the litter are not, it seems, confined to the barnyard...
...mesquite country, with sparse grass and sandy creeks that are perfect trails for the coyotes and their clients, who pay $800 apiece to reach Phoenix, $1,500 to Chicago. Along the way, says Roger Barnett, they cut fences and let out cattle, deliberately break water pumps and litter the pasture with garbage that chokes the cattle. Sometimes the coyotes and drug smugglers crossing through are armed. "Out here," says Cochise County sheriff Larry Dever, "any rancher would be a fool who isn't prepared to defend himself." But the sheriff insists that so far, no "vigilante action" against the illegals...
...feet. Open access, it argues, could lead to hacking and - gasp! - spamming, and it rightly assumes that one of the things its 90 million registered users (who exchange 651 million messages a day) cherish about IM is that it's unadulterated by the viral threats and cybercrap that litter their traditional e-mail accounts. AOL's proposal, besides being in the play-nice-with-Washington mold that Microsoft eschewed to its peril, has the added advantage of being utterly theoretical for the foreseeable future. Said IETF co-chairman Vijay Saraswat, whose group has been mulling instant-messaging standards proposals...
...guest of regional mischief-maker Colonel Muammar Ghaddafi. The Libyan leader persuaded Sankoh and former hairdresser and nightclub dancer Sam "General Mosquito" Bockarie to form the Revolutionary United Front and fight Sierra Leone's government. They trained alongside Liberia's Charles Taylor, who went on to litter his own road to his country's presidency with many a crushed skull and dismembered body. Rural poverty and resentment of Sierra Leone's corrupt one-party government attracted large numbers of young men, but despite its high-minded rhetoric, the RUF was almost from the outset a haven for desperate men looking...
...again Sankoh appears to have confounded his foes. The U.N. forces are scrambling to defend Freetown and find a way of freeing the 500-odd peacekeeping troops still in the hands of the RUF. The peace agreement they were meant to police is no more than a bit of litter on the floor of Sankoh's trashed house (where a New York Times reporter found an original, signed copy after the rebel leader had fled) and the international forces are scrambling to organize defenses to stave off a rebel assault on the capital. Britain, the country's former colonizer...