Word: porousness
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...vote to declare the elephant an endangered species, nations can exempt themselves from a trade ban without penalty. That is what the southern African nations have said they will do if a compromise cannot be reached. The real danger is that other countries may also break rank. The more porous the ban, the more the opportunities for illegal trading. Already South Africa and Botswana are on the smugglers' routes. An ambiguous result in Lausanne could embolden the trade and undermine enforcement efforts in Africa. Time is not on the elephant's side. If the slaughter continues at the rate...
Sophomore Kio Lippitt is the most promising of a group of defenders and goalies who will be expected to solidify last season's occasionally porous defense...
Sophomore Kio Lippitt is the most promising of a group of defenders and goalies who will be expected to solidify last season's occasionally porous defense...
Sophomore Kio Lippitt is the most promising of a group of defenders and goalies who will be expected to solidify last season's occasionally porous defense...
...groundwater rises, it dissolves mineral salts from the soil and bedrock. Ancient buildings, many made of porous limestone, act like sponges, sucking this salty water from the ground. When the water evaporates, the salts are left behind; when this happens at the stone's surface, these crystallize into destructive white lesions...