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...rapid urbanization has gobbled up fecund farmland. In Vietnam's Bac Ninh province, 12 miles (19 km) from downtown Hanoi, shimmering emerald paddy fields are now bisected by a four-lane highway. Not far from where rice farmer Nguyen Thi Lan stands weeding her fields in calf-deep muck, a Singapore-Vietnamese joint venture will soon build a 1,700-acre (700 hectare) industrial park and township, turning this rural area into a satellite city. Trang Hieu Dung, director of planning at Vietnam's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, says that the country is losing about 99,000 acres...
...head. (Moss Hart, trying gamely to get Andrews to emote in My Fair Lady, said, sighing, "She has that terrible British strength that makes you wonder how they ever lost India.") But she shows us where the toughness comes from: only somebody who fought her way out of the muck could ever be that squeaky clean...
...Shaye softened his stance. "Each of the respective sides looked at our confidantes, wives, etc. and said, 'This is really getting out of control,'" says Shaye. "Maybe it's worth a voice-to-voice conversation instead of letting a bunch of lawyers and intermediaries get in the middle and muck things...
...more populist approach, focused on educating Americans about climate change is refreshingly devoid of the muck associated with Washington politics. For over 25 years many scientists and climatologists have held that our environment is headed towards a tipping point, after which it’ll never recover. Until Gore started his (nearly) one-man crusade the public remained largely ignorant and apathetic about this very subject...
Unfazed, one of my fellow hikers plunged an arm into the mire, frowned, reached further, groped around, frowned, and reached yet deeper. When my trainer (and his arm) reemerged, naught but a mud-clump coating could be seen. It oozed muck and scum. Probably toted small swamp creatures. Reeked, needless...