Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Draped in Olympic glory on Japanese soil, one might think New England was the last thing on the minds of these young Harvard athletes, but Mleczko would soon dispel these notions...
...evidence, investigators say, includes explosives residue in the truck and in a storage shed Rudolph had rented, fibers from a blond wig like the one a witness had seen a man remove as he ran from the bombing scene, and a folding shovel with dirt believed to match the soil where the bomb had been buried beneath a flowerpot...
...example, a geomorphologist from Vanderbilt University, has been studying ancient sediments from Peru's northern desert, which is among the dryest spots on earth--except during El Nino years. Then and only then, torrential rains from a succession of storms compact surface dust into a layer of fine, red soil. From the age of the soils he has examined so far, Noller concludes that the El Nino cycle has been operating for at least 2 million years, and probably much longer...
This September I boarded a plane that sped me across the Atlantic, far from the shores of the U.S.A., and I didn't look back once. I landed on Spanish soil prepared to be enchanted by absolutely everything, and enchanted I was. There were orange trees lining the streets and bottles of red wine at every meal. The country closed down from two to five daily as everyone went home for a leisurely midday meal. The nightlife didn't get underway until midnight, and the streets were choked with party-goers until the wee hours of the morning...
...team conducted experiments to determine the extent of environmental damage and to devise alternative cottage industries to replace lead-glazing. They also successfully lobbied the Ecuadoran minister to finance a daycare facility at the village and are in the process of identifying chemical engineers to remove lead-contaminated soil from key areas of the village. Counter even brought a Harvard student film group to make a documentary about...