Word: soiled
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...with-Barbara-Walters famous, hit-video-on-Total Request Live famous. So things have changed on the second season of The Osbournes (Tuesdays, 10:30 p.m. E.T., beginning Nov. 26). Yes, everyone still swears a lot. Ozzy still can't figure out the TV remote. And the dogs still soil the carpet, although if they're smart, their agent has now negotiated a per-poop bonus in their contracts. But the series is no longer about the Osbournes, heavy-metal Munsters. It's about the Osbournes, stars of The Osbournes...
...shrimp--$3 billion worth in 2001 alone. Through last June, Thailand accounted for 28% of the shrimp imported into the U.S. But this commerce is costly. Long strips of coastline south of Bangkok now look like powdery gray moonscapes. Shrimp farms can raise the salinity of the surrounding soil and water, poisoning the land for agriculture. Some flush their effluent into the sea, killing mangrove trees. Shrimp farming is also practiced in Brazil, India and Ecuador, and in the U.S. in Florida, South Carolina and Texas...
...case is particularly significant now because U.S.-Saudi relations are at a critical point as Saudi hesitation about allowing the U.S. to launch military strikes on Iraq from Saudi soil continues, and on other fronts, the longstanding relationship between Washington and Riyadh is under pressure...
...just not an option this time of year. Unfortunately, the strongest stuff most students take to keep awake is caffeine, which makes you both wired and addicted, and has recently found to be a potent insecticide. (A report in Nature this summer showed that slugs placed in caffeine-sprayed soil soon die in a fit of “uncoordinated writhing...
...hope to avoid being overwhelmed by pilgrims seems a bit forlorn, however, especially when a reporter notes that the soil at the bottom of the now famous ossuary is littered with bone chips...