Word: scum
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...group of conservatively dressed women upstage model Gisele Bundchen, who was wearing only lingerie and high heels? Fairly easily, considering the women stormed the runway Bundchen was stalking and carried signs labeling her "scum." The fracas occurred at a Victoria's Secret fashion/peep show taping for a CBS special. Members of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals oppose Bundchen's modeling work for a fur company. Bundchen remained unfazed as protesters were dragged offstage. Lest ugliness invade the vision of female loveliness and male fantasy, her interrupted turn down the runway was reshot...
...used to hate people who jumped on the bandwagon. They were the scum of the earth, unwilling to stick it out through the thin along with the thick. But now, it’s a different story...
...long ago most Americans thought of seaweed in the same way they did, say, pond scum. But U.S. consumers are munching more nori with their sushi. And they are also eating salads and soups with seaweed--imported and domestic. More than 950 tons of seaweed such as hijiki and nori were imported from Japan last year, up from 554 tons in 2000. Larch Hanson, proprietor of Maine Seaweed Co., has seen orders triple in two years. "Seaweed is healthy, and people are more health conscious," says Bill Morrison, owner of Seaweed Cafe in Southwest Harbor, Maine. Other companies, trying...
...undiscovered change in the bug or the environment it grows in. "That's what keeps me awake at night," says Dr. Gwen Huitt, a pulmonologist at the National Jewish Medical and Research Center in Denver. "These mycobacteria are everywhere." They thrive in what scientists call biofilms--pond scum and the slime inside faucets and showerheads...
...teenagers is chanting "Kill the U.S.A.!" and raising their arms in the Nazi salute. Zakhar, aged 15, with shaved head and camouflage shirt, is reluctant to talk to a journalist, but makes an exception to explain that the rally is "all about exterminating the Jews, Americans and other scum...