Word: swamp
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After the Revolution, America made its largest revision in its approach to eradicating politicians. Besides the numerous “legislatures,” the former colonies set aside a reservation in the swamps between Maryland and Virginia expressly for containing politicians. Every other year, communities would exile the individual with the most votes against him to the swamp reservation for two years. Every state also would select the two politicians with the severest condition and exile them for six years. Although this exile system has been in place for 226 years, it has simply slowed the infection rate instead...
...organizations to carry the burden of keeping our streets clean of politicians. The IOP has served as a model for this cause by attempting to rehabilitate the politicians with the most pressing conditions who fall through the cracks. The institute finds individuals who have returned from exile in the swamp reservation or by a few votes avoided imminent exile. These individuals hope to turn around their lives, and with the assistance of mentors who have successfully kicked their political habits, the politicians enter into an intense and disciplined program of detox...
...three-layered plan "defense in depth": "For your inner layer of defense, you put hardened levees or flood walls in front of major population centers or other high-value assets. You protect that inner layer with a middle layer comprised of as large an expanse of wetlands or swamp as possible. Finally, you protect that middle layer with a third layer--barrier islands out in the ocean proper, which also act to absorb and weaken storm surges...
...looking around seeing this place I had grown up farming, seeing the place where I used to play as a little boy." Today Kumar, his wife and four children are crammed into an 8 m by 5 m shack located in the middle of a mosquito-infested mangrove swamp. Around them is a garbage tip of old tyres, tins and broken-up asbestos sheeting; human waste fills a network of stinking open drains that regularly overflow during high tide. Kumar and his wife bring in about $80 a week; a relative cares for the children, who do their homework...
...peace with all Arab nations if it returns to its pre-1967 war borders and allows thousands of Palestinian refugees to return home. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says he is open to some aspects of the plan, but not the "right of return" for Palestinians since they would swamp the Jewish state. The Saudis urged Israel to accept, or else. Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal said, "If Israel refuses, that means it doesn't want peace. Then [the conflict] goes back into the hands of the lords...