Word: stench
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...Amid the stench, few politicians come out smelling like roses. (Not even David Heathcoat-Amory, the Conservative legislator, who put in for $591 worth of horse manure for his garden.) But as in any mess, that hasn't stopped the parties' getting political in their response. And Gordon Brown, Britain's already browbeaten Prime Minister, has had the worst of it. In response to publication Tuesday of his party's own profligate claims, Conservative leader David Cameron was quick to sound contrite. Tory MPs, he thundered, "appalled" by the detail, would be made to cough up for "excessive" claims. Rules...
...miles per year - this translates to about 5.4 tons of CO2 emissions and 10.1 barrels of oil consumed each year. Could be worse, though in the category called "air pollution" the old van rates a pitiful 1 on a scale of 10 (and that's not counting the stench of fossilized chicken nuggets...
...Mariah Carey’s “Daydream” CD Sexiest physical trait: I work really hard on my cuticles. Best part about Harvard: The mac and cheese the Kirkland chefs serve at dinner when they run out of everything else Worst part about Harvard: The perennial stench behind Lowell House Describe yourself in 3 words: Humorless? No! Cynical. In 15 minutes you are: Getting back to my rigorous schedule of five hours of class per week In 15 years you are: Yearning for the glory days of senior spring
...groping for the right approach to Obama, oscillating in recent weeks between acerbic criticism and conciliatory praise. When Obama said that Chávez aids Colombia's Marxist guerrilla violence (which Chávez in fact has renounced), the Venezuelan President shot back that Obama had "the same stench" as Bush. But when the U.S. Coast Guard called Venezuelan authorities last week for permission to board a Venezuelan boat involved in a cocaine bust, Chávez called it a "positive signal that never would have happened" under Bush...
...other component of the stench is blood. "We feed them certified cattle blood," said Nikonov. "And on national holidays we give them veal blood as a treat." For Nikonov, who was trained as a chemist, breeding the leeches is an art. "It looks like it's just a jar full of water, but there are millions of chemical processes going...