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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Eat a Whole Spanish Hog | 11/10/2008 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World's Richest Cowboy | 11/6/2008 | See Source »

...fevered pitch. But at a panel event yesterday, two Harvard economists—one from the political left and one from the right—instead focused on the common ground between the candidates, saying that the event was “not an occasion for political mud wrestling...

Author: By Eric P. Newcomer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Professor Panel Focuses On Policy Similarities | 10/30/2008 | See Source »

...years, the buildings of the late vernacular architect Laurie Baker have helped alleviate poverty in India and done nothing to worsen climate change. Baker’s adobe abodes, which constitute the majority of the edifices in Thiruvananthpuram, Kerala are made mostly out of a resource requiring zero fuel: mud. The buildings often lack doors and have awkward gaps between the bricks to facilitate cooling. Baker’s team, the Centre of Science and Technology for Rural Development associates and follows Mahatma Gandhi’s edict that all materials be found within a five-mile radius: wood, bamboo...

Author: By Raúl A. Carrillo | Title: Captain Planet Economics | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

...McCain's benighted handlers had been stuck too deep in the Rovian mud to pick up on that. But in the days just before the debate, McCain returned to the acceptable boundaries of presidential politics with a punchy new stump speech that was plenty critical of Obama but critical on matters of substance, not inference. Obama would raise taxes. He would spend too much. He would "concede defeat in Iraq." And then, in a perfect valedictory to his career, McCain said, "I'm an American. And I choose to fight." It is impossible to say what McCain's fate would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Round Three | 10/16/2008 | See Source »

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