Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would be difficult for farmers to grow crops after the coca has been destroyed. They point out that Spike is not meant to be used on the moist, hilly terrain of the eastern Andes. Warns Edgardo Machado, a Peruvian coca researcher: "The rain will drag the herbicide into the soil at lower levels of the valley, where there are farms...
Like many gardeners, I am rather a bungler. I know very little about pH soil tests. I think I know how to prune a rosebush, but the rosebush may think otherwise. I learned from my father the basic rules of mulching and thinning -- how to stake out the tomatoes, how to make the peas climb up the chicken wire, how to bind up the raspberries -- but the techniques that worked in the fertile hills of Vermont do not necessarily work in the sands of Long Island. Most important of all, I do not have the time (or the energy...
While the General Secretary left the details vague, Soviet and American space scientists have long discussed the broad outlines of a joint mission. The most probable venture, an unmanned mission in 1998 to bring Martian soil back to earth, would blend the strengths of the two nations' space programs. "The Soviets have the ability to put massive amounts of material into space," says John McLucas, a NASA adviser and a former Secretary of the Air Force. "But they rely on other countries to supply a good fraction of their instrumentation. We do things in a more refined...
...major U.S. contribution would be an "intelligent" ground vehicle. The robot rambler, which resembles the "moon buggy" used in the Apollo moon landings, would be used to gather and analyze soil samples. It must be able to find its way around the Martian surface, guided by an advanced artificial- intelligence "brain." It would then deposit the soil samples in a special canister that would be blasted aloft to the Soviet orbiter for the trip home. The 1976 U.S. Viking Lander probes, by contrast, could only radio data from soil samples back from Mars. This time, the samples would be returned...
...time was bumbling through yet another week of negotiations with the military dictator that would involve quashing American drug-running indictments against the Panamanian strongman if he stepped down from power. Said Bush: "I won't bargain with drug dealers . . . whether they're on U.S. or foreign soil...