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...Joel Rifkin's gifts as a gardener. "Joel could tell you exactly what's growing," says Frank Barton, who lives across the street from the landscaper. "He knew how long it'll grow and when it'll die." But Joel Rifkin cultivated life and death in other, more odious ways. And last week he revealed a terrifying bouquet of evil...
...Crimson's performance against the Minutemen was like one of those sandwiches that looks so appealing from the outside--golden brown French bread with a fancy toothpick holding everything together. But one bite and what's in the middle reveals itself to be odious, a mixture of anchovies and peanut butter...
...work with. And the $7 million HBO earmarked for the project probably came in handy too. The film remains reasonably faithful to the spirit of the book, while vastly simplifying the plot. Whereas Burrough and Helyar recount a story that involves dozens of rapacious financiers, greedy executives, odious publicists, duplicitous bankers and devious attorneys, hbo has boiled down the cast of characters to only about a dozen. But they're all pretty avaricious, devious, duplicitous or odious, so very little has been lost in translation...
...Commission, defended the notion that the royals were public property, but nonetheless called some of the stories "prurient reporting." He added, "The most recent intrusive and speculative treatment by sections of the press (and indeed by broadcasters) of the marriage of the Prince and Princess of Wales is an odious exhibition of journalists dabbling their fingers in the stuff of other people's souls...
Most poultry plants are cramped and noisy, with floors constantly wet and slippery. Some rooms are cold, others hot and malodorous enough to bring a visitor close to vomiting. Employees are sometimes splashed with feces, blood, guts or chicken fat. Even more odious is the industry's rising injury rate. Labor Department statistics show that 27% of poultry workers suffer on-the-job injuries and illnesses each year, making fowl processing one of the nation's most hazardous jobs. In terms of repetitive-motion disorders, poultry work is exceeded only by meat packing. In a study by the National Institute...