Word: shelfful
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...bake vegan brownies or appraising the coiffure of John Quincy Adams. Bookshelves are filled with out-of-print zines. “Stolen Sharpie Revolution,” is filed near “Things You Can Stab While Riding A Bike Carrying A Sword.” One shelf over? “Bad Hair...
...unintended consequences. To prevent catastrophic floods like the 1927 disaster that left 700,000 people homeless from Illinois to Louisiana, the Corps leveed and streamlined the Mississippi. That effort turned the meandering, porous waterway into the world's largest high-pressure hose, shooting sediment and nutrients off the continental shelf in the Gulf of Mexico. Starved of silt and undermined by oil-drilling operations, the delta has been sinking at the same time global warming has caused water levels to rise. The result: every half an hour, a chunk of land about the size of a football field is lost...
...news that goes against "national security and the public interest." The latest clampdown continues a campaign that started almost 10 years ago when China began building its own version of the World Wide Web. It was relatively simple to keep tabs, with authorities quickly learning to program off-the-shelf network routers?the switches that zip data around the Internet?to block offending Web addresses. Then, in 2000, Beijing spelled out its strict Internet philosophy: State Council Order No. 292 barred nine types of content from websites, online bulletin boards and chat rooms, including anything that might "harm the dignity...
...party president (and thus Prime Minister) expires in September 2006. But "one year is not enough to implement long-term policies," says political commentator Minoru Morita?meaning that other goals Koizumi once espoused, such as pension reform and slashing Japan's fiscal deficit, could be left on the shelf. And Koizumi's mandate is still fragile. Although the election aligned the LDP on postal reform, the party is far from united on other issues. A survey of lower-house members by the Mainichi Shimbun revealed huge rifts in the LDP on everything from education funding to nuclear armament...
...Sobek-Rosnick, the top-shelf laser was the third goal in her career. Her two previous tallies are, unsurprisingly, both penalty strokes as well, coming in similar fashion against Providence and UMass...