Word: mud
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According to Riley, one of the four acutely intoxicated students transported by ambulance that day nearly died when the thick mud on the intramural fields trapped an ambulance, a tow truck and a police cruiser that were all sent in to rescue the convulsing student...
Discovered in 1941, this hidden canyon in the Kronotsky Nature Reserve is one of the world's geothermal wonders. Rickety boardwalks snake through a hell's kitchen of bubbling mud pots in rainbow hues of ocher, pea green and blue gray; of steaming fumaroles puffing from deep crevasses; and of more than 200 geysers, some of which spout boiling water over 100 ft. into the air. Similarly dramatic was the nearby Uzon Caldera, a 6-sq.-mi. geothermal field where we bathed in a warm sulfurous-smelling pond. As we coated ourselves with mud, thinking "spa," our cook, Lukyanova...
...stepped on lots of cans, and handles were buried in the mud,” said Vivero, who added that cups might have replaced the cans if kegs had been allowed...
...Loch Ness monster. In this sleepy province in the heart of the Isaan region 620 kilometers northeast of Bangkok, where men are men and bugs are food, just about everyone is happy to regale you with tales of monster sightings or giant, snaking tracks left in the riverbank's mud. Some locals brandish grainy pictures of what could be anything from a log to a boat, and swear it is evidence of the outsize serpent. And then there's that postcard: ubiquitous and eye-catching, of a band of U.S. service members purportedly stationed in the area in the early...
...conflict” mines. Amnesty International, OXFAM, Global Witness and other human rights groups have spent years railing against conflict diamonds because the diamonds are a double dose of misery. In Sierra Leone, the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) captures mines and then forces locals to forage through the mud looking for diamonds. After extracting days of slave labor from these hapless workers, the RUF thanks the workers by hacking off their arms with machetes...