Word: spilling
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...Good luck, fella! Shaping the present seems hard enough for the Bush Administration. The abrupt Republican skedaddle away from Bush on the Dubai ports issue was a vivid demonstration of the populist fever rising in America-a make-the-world-go-away attitude that seems likely to spill over from Dubai to the war in Iraq. The best rationale for a continuing U.S. military presence-that the troops are preventing a civil war-began to evaporate with the internecine chaos last week. Indeed, the Dubai controversy may have opened the door for the ultimate apostasy: Bush could rapidly lose Republican...
...alarm following three leaks in the past month, including one from aged pipe that was due to be replaced in June. But more worrisome, they said, was the fact that the company and federal officials only recently disclosed publicly that, in fact, there had been eight leaks and spills going back 10 years. Most occurred in pipes that are supposed to safely dispose of waste but on some occasions leaked tritium into the ground water. One spill, in 1998 at the company's Braidwood generating plant, dumped some 3 million gallons of water that was still in the ground eight...
...These [leaks] are at levels of radioactivity that you may be exposed to by simply walking the face of the earth," said Exelon spokesman Craig Nesbit, who added that the company welcomes any federal or state inspections. "But the 1998 spill was, clearly, improperly handled and it was a large wakeup call and kicked us into gear. Our sensitivity to the environmental effects of what we do and our sensitivity to the public's need to know, and right away, has evolved tremendously over the last couple of months...
Anyone claiming the Harvard-Yale rivalry is overstated needed only to look at the line of students in Loker Commons yesterday, poised to spill their blood for a Harvard victory—literally...
...weep: turns out that Harvard students are not all cynical, sleep-deprived depressives, and if they are, they’re coming out in big numbers to try to get better. Turns out quite a few of us would rather cultivate our self-esteem and spirituality than spill tears over textbooks at 4 a.m. The proof is in the pudding, it seems—the mental health crisis is taking care of itself...