Word: mud
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...have fun.” The Crimson women accomplished this goal and more, turning the difficult conditions into an advantage. “Conditions did make times slower and made it more difficult,” Richardson explained. “But we were just stomping around in the mud having a great time. That’s what cross country is all about, and we actually enjoyed [the challenge].” Harvard’s male competitors did not express as much enthusiasm for the sloppy course, but achieved equal success in the 10K race. Sophomore Dan Chenoweth...
While the school collapses have been in the news in the last week, the country is still drowning in the aftermath of the storms. Gonaives, the country's third largest town, was the hardest hit and is still buried under 3 million metric tons of mud. Medecins San Frontiers (MSF, Doctors Without Borders) has set up mobile clinics, distributed water and constructed a temporary hospital in Gonaives, since the government hospital was completely destroyed during Hurricane Hannah in late August. In hard-to-reach areas, however, malnutrition is growing and the food supply shrinks. Daily food insecurity affects...
...jarring to see where a drug like heparin begins. Liu Jing, a cheerful 36-year-old, is stomping around in pig poop and mud in knee-high boots. He is a farmer in Jiangsu province, north of Shanghai, where providing the raw ingredients for heparin is a big business. Liu's farm produces a key source of heparin: pig intestines. (Heparin is derived from the mucous membranes in the intestines.) Nearly half the world's pigs are in China, so companies like SPL have set up shop. In SPL's case, it first began buying raw heparin in 1996, established...
...them really angry. An army of ant scatterers emerges from behind us, each one with a bag of the anty soil, which they launch into the air above our heads. Screams go up as the sky fills with soil and very annoyed ants...Everyone is maniacally scraping mud and insects from their hair and clothes, yelping and groaning with horror and hilarity in roughly equal measure...
...really big and mean and you never knew what he was going to do. So when you got on him, you knew that you better have everything in line or it wasn't going to be good for you. Then there was another bull named Mossy Oak Mud Slinger. Everybody wanted to draw him, but if you made one little mistake, you would buck...