Word: soiled
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...country has been deforested, and last week the consequences were measured in bodies. The floods that devastated Haiti and the Dominican Republic, and killed by some estimates 2,000, were made worse in Haiti by the lack of roots to soak up rain and hold back sliding soil. Mud rushed down denuded mountains and engulfed entire towns like Mapou, near the Dominican border, where rescue workers fear as many as 1,000 people may have drowned or been buried alive. In Jimani, residents...
...recent refrain of Democrats and the 9/11 Commission has been one of anger that the Bush administration did not do enough to stop terrorist attacks before they happened on American soil. And if they can make a specifics-filled case that shows where and when Bush failed, then they will make a strong point. Yet, whatever ferocity has come down upon the Bush administration for not doing enough before 9/11 to stop terrorist attacks should come down tenfold on U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who will be this year’s Commencement speaker...
...last al-Qaeda terror strike on U.S. soil rallied the overwhelming majority of Americans strongly behind President Bush. Whether and how a new terror strike on U.S. soil three years later might do the same remains to be seen. But whereas the 9/11 attack shocked and horrified much of the international community, including the Arab and Muslim world, and drew them initially closer to Washington, it's unlikely that a new attack would do much to reverse the deep polarization of the international community brought on by the war in Iraq...
Finally, their biological alarm clock goes off. When that time comes, scientists think, a soil temperature of 64ºF (18ºC) signals the nymphs to tunnel back...
...sting or bite, and they are not poisonous. The insects don't eat much, and healthy trees can actually benefit from the pruning that takes place when branches die from the hundreds of slits the females cut to lay eggs. On the ground, cicada exit holes aerate the soil...