Word: oiled
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...with computers. Last month a couple living in Grand Island gave their local elementary school two years in which to rid itself of peanuts. Why? So their three-year-old son, who suffers from a severe allergy to peanuts, won't be exposed to peanut butter, peanut oil or even "peanut dust" when he enters kindergarten in the fall of 2000. This demand for a peanut ban has divided the community and placed school officials in a tough spot. Can't they accommodate this child's disability without depriving everyone else of Planters...
Even a princess can't do some things. JREDS lost a fight against construction of an Aqaba oil refinery, and though the society helped win a law against traps that ensnare precious coral fish as well as edible species, many fishermen still use the devices. Zipping by a culprit as she rides on a royal pleasure boat, Basma gives a shrug that is part resignation, part stiffened resolve. But mostly stiffened resolve...
...tall black-and-white bird, the shaggy-maned Wheeler scowls when he thinks about the great auk's fate. During the 18th and 19th centuries, commercial fishing vessels scoured the waters off North America for cod. Since the all but defenseless great auk provided a source of meat and oil, fishermen clubbed the birds to death by the millions on the rookeries off Newfoundland. The last two known members of the species, a nesting pair, were killed on June 3, 1844, strangled by Icelandic fishermen recruited by a merchant who hoped to sell the skins to collectors...
Water looks set to replace oil as the prime cause of Middle Eastern wars. Turkey has moved thousands of troops into position and threatened Monday to attack Syria unless Damascus stops backing Turkey's Kurdish separatists. But Syria's motivation for supporting the Kurds may be a way of sending a message: "Syria fears that Turkey's Ataturk Dam on the Euphrates River will choke its water supply," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "They've sheltered the Kurdish guerrillas as a way of warning the Turks not to push them...
Since the end of apartheid to the present, Harvard has continued its practice of investing in irresponsible multinational corporations. By the end of 1997, Harvard had over $34 million invested in Shell Oil--a world leader in environmental destruction and human rights abuses. Shell Oil's dubious relationship with the military government of Nigeria has led to the importation of arms and paying the military to suppress local civilian opposition, the execution of Nobel peace laureate Ken Saro-wiwa and eight others for speaking out against its oil drilling operations, and environmental destruction which has caused pollution levels in Nigeria...