Word: rotted
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...tide of sewage, pollution and the occasional swollen body floating past her front door. "It's like living on the edge of a boat," she says. "The snakes swim under the bed." With August historically bringing the heaviest rain, the U.N. is warning of worse to come. As corpses rot and contaminate the floodwater, doctors expect the death toll to skyrocket, with waterborne diseases such as cholera (already contracted by 15,000 Nepalis) and dysentery (currently infecting 5,000 people a day in Bangladesh) turning into full-blown epidemics. "This is just the beginning," says Dr. Sudhir Kumar...
When Reagan took office, the Soviet Union was 64 years old, nearly eligible, as it were, for Social Security. The rot in its marrow, while still hidden to the outside world and U.S. intelligence, was metastasizing. Reagan's great contribution to the end of the cold war was first understanding that Moscow's cancer was terminal and then working to ensure--through arms control, constrained rhetoric and personal diplomacy--that the end would come about, peacefully but inexorably...
...Microsoft's current performance demonstrates that empires rise, reign and ultimately rot. Your story showed that the Microsoft empire may have entered the third phase of this familiar cycle. Uche I. Adiele Aberdeen, Scotland...
Microsoft's performance demonstrates that empires rise, reign and ultimately rot. Your story showed that the Microsoft empire may have entered the third phase of this familiar cycle. UCHE I. ADIELE Aberdeen, Scotland
...that Bush appointees are slowing the pace of cleanups and failing to list potential new sites. According to the EPA's inspector general, 29 projects in 17 states were underfunded last year. The Administration, charges New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg, a Democrat, has "allowed--deliberately--these sites to rot where they...