Word: slugs
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They are every gardener's nightmare: big, slimy slugs that eat holes in lettuce leaves and gouge craters in tomatoes. Now Ian Kelly, a computer scientist at the California Institute of Technology, has developed a robotic slug catcher that not only identifies and eliminates slugs but could eventually power itself with its victims' bodies...
...more dune bashing, air-conditioned this time, and after 90 minutes we arrive at base camp in time for some sandboarding and camel riding. We watch sundown, sucking on apple-scented tobacco through hookah pipes, before sitting down to a barbecue of salad, tabbouleh and lamb kebabs. After a slug of thick, grainy coffee and some belly dancing -- this is an all-in tour -- the convoy snakes back through the desert for the hour's journey back to town. The trip costs $92 per person and can be booked through arabianodyssey.co.uk...
...return to the dining room, he barged in, firing a burst that killed his parents and shooting 12 others in the room. Among those fatally injured were the Crown Prince's younger brother, Nirajan, and his sister Shruti. He then turned the revolver on himself, firing a .38-cal. slug up through his temple, the bullet exiting the other side. The shooting spree took less than 30 seconds...
...matter how the talks turn out, the kind of bitter medicine the protocol prescribes, with the U.S. taking the biggest slug, did not go down well in Washington even before Bush arrived. In 1997 the Senate, which must ratify treaties, voted 95 to 0 that any global-warming pact that came before it must treat developed and developing countries equally. Such a repudiation is one more argument the Administration is using to pull the plug on Kyoto - though the Senate was probably driven by more than mere conscience. One of the 1997 resolution's sponsors was Democratic Senator Robert Byrd...
...matter how the talks turn out, the kind of bitter medicine the protocol prescribes, with the U.S. taking the biggest slug, did not go down well in Washington even before Bush arrived. In 1997 the Senate, which must ratify treaties, voted 95 to 0 that no global-warming pact that came before it would be okayed unless it treated developed and developing countries equally. Such a repudiation is one more argument the Administration is using to pull the plug on Kyoto--though it was more than mere conscience that was probably driving the Senate. One of the resolution's sponsors...