Word: slating
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Excrement. Stool. Defecation. S___. This unlikely tour of the underworld of human waste grew out of the author's 2006 series on sewage for the online magazine Slate. George, an accomplished London-based writer, has inarguably hit on an important topic. As many as 2.6 billion people lack sanitation--meaning no access to a latrine, a toilet, a bucket or even a box. The health consequences are, not surprisingly, catastrophic: "A gram of feces," George writes, "can contain 10 million viruses, 1 million bacteria, 1,000 parasite cysts and 100 worm eggs." The privileged Westerner winces. Yet in an upbeat...
Given the overwhelming slate of potential harm, the aim of the study was to identify early predictors of victimization, along with behavioral interventions that may prevent it. The bulk of past research on the matter involved primary-school-age children, says Michel Boivin, a psychologist at Université Laval in Québec, Canada, and a co-author of the study; the new research tracks behavior in very young kids - as early as those in pre-preschool, when children first begin interacting with one another socially...
...Looking at the months ahead, it seems the coaching staff has skillfully accomplished this task, generating a challenging slate of contests that has also inspired tremendous excitement among the grapplers...
...What certainly haven’t changed from year to year are the Ivy League games on the Crimson schedule, and with the 2008 season comes a renewed set of challenges that Harvard is more than ready to face. By now, the fearsome foursome knows exactly what the slate of Ivy games will ask of them.“I think it also comes down to playing with heart and playing for the passion of the game, because a lot of the time the Ivy League doesn’t come down to skill,” Wylie said...
...Gwen very competently summarized the conventional wisdom you'd already been hearing all day. She didn't really move the ball." - Slate blogger and journalist Mickey Kaus...