Word: poison
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...rats, hundreds of them. White House aides going home after dark have had to bang on their briefcases and bags to scare the beasts away. The 165 traps that have been strategically positioned around the mansion grounds by the White House gardener -- and baited with environmentally sound poison -- have done little to stem the invasion. Mrs. Clinton has taken over health care; is this a job for Socks...
...causes of the coral's demise are manifold, but they all come back to one culprit: us. Overfishing - especially the kind that uses dynamite or poison to kill whole schools of fish - destroys the coral directly, while polluted runoff from agriculture simply chokes them. Development in booming coastal economies from the Caribbean to Southeast Asia further threaten the delicate reefs. Tourism - in the form of diving and snorkeling - can also cause damage. As with so many other endangered species around the world, there doesn't seem to be enough space for healthy coral reefs and unchecked human development...
...that ruin their habitat, the shallow waters close to our coast. Agricultural runoff - already responsible for the oceanic "dead zones" seen in the Gulf of Mexico and other heavily built up coasts - has to be curtailed, as does the senselessly destructive fishing practices that have us tossing dynamite or poison into the waters. One of the best strategies is to expand the range of territory protected by marine reserves - national parks of the deep. And here the Bush Administration - usually anything but environmental - deserves real credit. With a stroke of a pen in 2006, President George W. Bush created...
...apparent al-Qaeda targets have claimed scores of civilian lives, and the Pakistani military presence in the FATA is seen to be at the behest of the U.S. "There is so much resentment in our blood now that even if you give us candy, we will think it is poison," says Malik Sherzada, a school principal in Bajaur, which has been the site of one such Predator attack...
...participation in taking Brooks’s life. A second tangential issue that received prominent play was whether or not pumping deadly chemicals into Brooks was more “humane” than giving him a lethal dose of electricity or forcing him to inhale poison...