Word: swamp
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...smuggling drugs to the United States. The Colombian government ordered an investigation into Judge Luz Amanda Moncada's conduct because ministers suspected corruption. MEANWHILE Dragon their feet Work on a New Zealand highway was stopped because of Karutahi, a legendary one-eyed dragon said to live in a swamp on the route. Sonny Wara of the Ngati Naho tribe said the dragon was "a feared thing in Maoridom" and sought talks with the road authorities. Officials, choosing not to mess with the myth, agreed...
...Solving crimes is not nearly so quick and reliable a job as a 46-min. story line would make it seem. Investigations can take months, evidence can get muddled and courts, dubious about all the new gadgetry, are often reluctant to trust it. And that doesn't touch the swamp of constitutional questions raised when a prosecutor tries to wade into a suspect's brain and DNA. "TV has romanticized forensic science," says Susan Narveson, head of the forensics lab of the Phoenix, Ariz., police department and president of the American Society of Crime Lab Directors. All this creates unrealistic...
...food chain for foreign invaders - or going bust because they can't afford E.U. safety and environmental standards. Among the biggest losers will be farmers, who have become enlargement's most vocal opponents. They know that products from existing members, heavily subsidized by the Common Agricultural Policy, will swamp them once trade barriers disappear - and that their own subsidies from Brussels will be limited at first to one-quarter of Western levels. Romania, due to join in 2007, shows the problems most starkly. It has 5.1 million farms of less than three hectares, compared to an average farm size...
...Jersey Torricelli's ethical lapses have put him in a swamp of bad publicity, but he's got money and a machine behind...
...NORMAN (BUDDY) BAKER, 84, Oscar-nominated Disney composer who wrote scores for some 200 films, TV shows and Disney attractions; in Sherman Oaks, Calif. After leaving his post as musical director for Bob Hope, Baker joined Disney in 1954 and created the music for such TV series as Zorro, Swamp Fox and Daniel Boone as well as for such films as The Apple Dumpling Gang...