Word: soiled
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...drinking laws. Ostensibly Jenna could join ROTC - okay, it would probably be the National Guard - and then be shipped off to fight a UN-sponsored war. When she?s finished fighting for the day, can she have a beer? Sure, if she?s overseas. But not on U.S. soil. It?s an old argument, but it still resonates, once you get over the deep unlikelihood of the idea of Jenna Bush joining the military...
...under the surface contains minute amounts of gold, a few grams a ton. Their primitive processing techniques require large quantities of mercury to extract the precious metal. Los Angeles-based environmental consultancy Dames and Moore estimates that between 100 and 200 tons of mercury have already seeped into the soil and water around the main mining site at Talawaan. Many tons more are dumped each month...
...holding the precious mercury and gold mixture, is Freddy Sigarlaki, the owner of the processing unit. Eyes glistening, Sigarlaki explains how he spent about $3,000?several decades' income for most of the farmers in the area?sinking a shaft on a nearby piece of land he owns. The soil yielded hardly any gold. Undeterred, Sigarlaki boasts he has now hired an excavator from Manado at $20 an hour to dig farther and deeper and faster. "No, no, there's no danger of contamination," the pony-tailed Sigarlaki says impatiently. He pauses and looks around, and spots Fecky. "My neighbors...
...chuang, a village 40 minutes from Tainan, Taiwan's fourth-largest city. Renowned for its water chestnuts and mangoes, Hsi-chuang is still a rural community, despite being part of a township with a main road bristling with Toyota dealerships and Nikkomarts. The citizens make their living from the soil, and everyone knows the business of Mrs. Chang down the street, for example, and her son Li who just bought a new Nissan Cefiro. They speak Mandarin with a Taiwanese accent so thick that mainlanders can't follow a word...
...strike on Yasser Arafat's Fatah offices in Gaza City, which wounded 20 Palestinians. But Sharon is caught between his hard-line constituents' demands to raise an iron hand against the Palestinians and the outside world's pleas to pursue a diplomatic solution. Even as fresh blood soaked the soil of the disputed land, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres was in Europe searching for a formula that could bring the enemies back to the negotiating table...