Word: slop
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...sunscreen as your only protection. Stay out of the midday sun (from 10 to 3), and you will avoid 60% of the UV-B that hits the earth. Slip on a long-sleeve shirt to protect those vulnerable areas on the shoulders and back. When you use sunscreen, slop it on thick and often. And slap on a wide-brimmed hat, and you can keep 70% of the sun's rays off your face and neck. After decades of their "Slip, Slop, Slap" campaign, Australians are starting to see a decrease in their rate of deaths from melanoma, a particularly...
...freakin' hick town." Will, who comes from Springfield, wants to add that Springfield is the capital of Illinois, and is therefore an important center of commerce and politics. We do not go cow tipping on weekends. We do not wake up at 4 a.m. every morning to slop the hogs...
Maybe it's just that the ever expanding Halloween season has begun to slop over into Christmas. In recent Christmases, "more people are costuming" in season-appropriate wearables, according to Phil Wiseman of Maritz Marketing Research Inc., who does an annual survey of holiday buying habits. Of course, the same can be said of Halloween. Once an occasion when children were sent out to practice the fine art of extortion on the neighbors, Halloween is fast becoming an excuse for adults in feathered masks and body paint to indulge in public foreplay. Already costumes are almost de rigueur, replacing even...
Reading about the new generation of female musicians has made me less optimistic about pop culture. The fact that singer-songwriters like Sarah McLachlan and Jewel have managed to break through the homogenized slop that record companies are distributing does not mean that music or women have been liberated. As is the case with all true artists, it is their writing, singing and passion that do the most to distinguish them, not their gender. CRAIG R. BAYER North Bergen...
...discovery of evidence that life may exist elsewhere in the universe raises that most profound of all human questions: Why does life exist at all? Is it simply that if enough cosmic elements slop together for enough eons, eventually a molecule will form somewhere, or many somewheres, that can replicate itself over and over until it evolves into a creature that can scratch its head? Or did an all-powerful God set in motion an unfathomable process in order to give warmth and meaning to a universe that would otherwise be cold and meaningless? The rock from Mars does...