Word: mum
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Skeptics who ridicule fears over pesticide exposure are mum on the question of environmental degradation. Pesticides sprayed over sprawling corn fields in the Midwest do not magically disappear. Neither do nitrates from chemical fertilizers. They linger in the soil, and then seep into the water supply. Costs of treating water for just these byproducts are estimated at $300 million annually. And it is the consumer, not the farmer, who picks up the tab through higher water bills...
...success. Last week Turkey was in the embarrassing position of having native son ORHAN PAMUK win the Nobel Prize for literature within a year of charging him with insulting Turkish identity. Critics also made much of Indian-born novelist KIRAN DESAI winning Britain's Man Booker Prize after her mum was short-listed three times for the $93,000 award. But the fuss is over. Everyone can go back to ignoring serious authors again...
...first two hours, as his newly appointed lawyers offered an ad hoc defense. His co-defendants had already interrupted the proceedings to say they object to the attorneys brought in after the entire defense team boycotted the removal of the previous judge last week, but Saddam stayed mum. That is until the judge admonished his former military intelligence chief for using one of the old military titles of lieutenant general to describe Sultan Hashim, the commander who led the 1988 scorched-earth campaign that killed 182,000 Kurds...
...claim that Armitage threatened to bomb his country, Musharraf now says his publisher has told him to keep mum on that tidbit until his memoir hits the stores - probably the first time a foreign president has delivered a teaser for his book at a White House press conference...
...haired veterinarian she's been dating to get over McDreamy. In the season finale of the show Drs. Shepherd and Grey unleashed their passion in an exam room of Seattle Grace Hospital. Now McDreamy wants her back. Or does he? And whom will Meredith choose? Producers have been frustratingly mum on the subject. "In the season premiere a relationship will end but it's not the one you think," executive producer Betsy Beers told TIME...