Word: soiled
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Chair of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce Tom Hollister told the early-morning crowd that Boston’s claim to fame should not be its rocky soil, one-way streets, bad drivers, cod fish, or high cost of living...
...cutting down trees, most easily prevents fires. And even if there was no way to prevent these trees from being burned, then it would still be immeasurably better to let the trees burn rather than log them. The entire eco-system relies on the renewal of nutrients to the soil, which would be lacking if the trees were removed instead of burned. Either way, however, this argument holds absolutely no shrift in Alaska, where fires rarely exceed a few acres in range, since both Tongass and Chugach are rainforests. This logging, no matter which way you cut it, severely disrupts...
...with the only difference being the destruction of the forest. But even in the short term, relaxing environmental regulations is clearly an inefficient job-creating device, considering the government currently spends $30 million every year in subsidies for logging in the area. In addition, the problems resulting from deforestation (soil erosion, flooding, global warming, reduced fisheries etc.) will cost an inestimable amount of money, especially for those regions that rely economically on their renewable natural resources. Even planting new trees will not solve this problem; new trees actually emit more carbon dioxide than they absorb and do not have...
...Pentagon may not need or even want much foreign help, U.S. armed forces do require other kinds of cooperation, like basing and overflight rights. This was most recently demonstrated in the long-running argument between the U.S. and Turkey over the price--literally--of allowing U.S. troops on Turkish soil. While the diplomats haggled, nearly three dozen ships started to ferry men and equipment of the 4th Infantry Division from the U.S. to Turkey. Under the war plans, the division is supposed to attack Iraq from the north. Diverting the Turkey-bound ships to the Persian Gulf--probably to Kuwait...
...administration may be hoping to force some of the skeptics to follow Turkey's lead and make their peace with a war they oppose. Turkey's parliament is due to vote Saturday to allow the U.S. to station more than 60,000 troops on its soil, after the government extracted promises of a multibillion dollar aid-and-loan package from Washington and agreement on Turkey deploying its own forces inside northern Iraq to suppress the nationalist ambitions of the Iraqi Kurds...