Word: parkes
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...According to records kept by Taronga Park Zoo in Sydney, 193 people have been killed by sharks in Australia over the past 200 years, averaging about one per year...
Tellingly, most of the event was confined to Cambridge and Somerville: the pantsless crowd rode from Alewife to Park Street and back, where they redressed...
...insanity of busing our own trays at McDonald's: "McDonald's is not a public park where we all need to pitch in to preserve 'the commons.' It's a private, for-profit establishment out to make money. The so-called market should take care of it. They just need to hire more people to keep the place spic-and-span, or else have customers vote for Burger King with their feet. Perhaps it was part of a secret plot: Hire fewer people in order to put pressure on the customer to look after his own garbage. At first folks...
Sure, experts say, he'll cough up the obvious brokerage accounts, client names, and offshore and numbered accounts that dealt directly with his investment company, Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC. And he'll begrudgingly concede the $7 million Park Avenue pad, the Palm Beach digs, the yachts, the French villa and the Montauk getaway. But no one believes he'll tell authorities where all the booty is stashed - not a chance, unless it saves him from walking the plank. It's the equivalent of the British government asking the infamous pirate Captain Kidd if he wouldn't mind handing...
...plumbing industry. Really lucky causes might get an entire year: 2007 went to the American Society of Agronomy, on the occasion of its 100th anniversary. Other resolutions have marked seemingly arbitrary anniversaries, as in the 2008 decision to herald the 63rd birthday of Texas's Big Bend National Park...