Word: oiled
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...houses faced the road, not south. Instead of turning a cold shoulder to winter winds, the north side had windows to admit light and a view. The 20th century brought cheap oil and labor-saving furnaces, and Americans neglected energy conservation until the 1973 oil embargo reawakened interest in some old fashioned ideas...
...England hospitals with vitamin D overdoses, but researchers wanted to find out. Too little of this crucial vitamin can lead to bone weakness and rickets, the deforming of bones in growing children. That's why D, found naturally in only a few foods (including the seriously disgusting cod liver oil), has been routinely added to milk since the 1930s. But too much of the vitamin is no bonus; the symptoms range from fatigue to urinary-tract stones to kidney malfunction -- and, in infants, the condition known as "failure to thrive," which can lead to death...
MEXICO'S ATTORNEY GENERAL ISSUED A REPORT blaming the state-owned oil giant Pemex for the explosion last month that destroyed 20 blocks of downtown Guadalajara. Police indicted four Pemex executives, the mayor of Guadalajara and other officials and charged them with negligent homicide in connection with the blast, which killed 194 people. There had been many complaints about gas fumes, the report says, and on April 21 Guadalajara officials measured "up to 100% explosiveness" in the city's sewers. They told residents there was no reason to leave. The next day at least nine major explosions blew a swath...
...Eighth Amendment forbids "cruel and unusual punishments." Some of the witnesses last week thought the cyanide, which took some minutes to kill Harris, was barbaric. That is an insult to centuries of creative barbarians, who have administered capital punishment by boiling in oil, burning at the stake, flaying to death, crushing, impaling, drowning, crucifying, drawing and quartering, disemboweling, gibbeting, garroting, throwing to lions and much, much worse. Cyanide, by comparison, is a sweet pink poof of cessation. Would last week's witnesses have been happier if California had used a neat bullet to the base of the brain (the method...
...shoddiest materials and the sloppiest work. In addition, the Federal Government has encouraged neglect by subsidizing new construction or major restructuring at 90 cents to the dollar but awarding no subsidies for maintenance work. One expert likens it to not reimbursing drivers for the cost of changing oil in their cars while paying 90% of the price of a valve job. "The attitude was the faster it crumbles, the faster we'll get brand-new," says New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a stalwart highway watcher. Moreover, maintenance is unglamorous. "Nobody ever had a ribbon-cutting ceremony for fixing cracks...