Word: swamp
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...gets stranger still. Not only does dark energy swamp ordinary gravity but an invisible substance known to scientists as "dark matter" also seems to outweigh the ordinary stuff of stars, planets and people by a factor of 10 to 1. "Not only are we not at the center of the universe," University of California, Santa Cruz, astrophysical theorist Joel Primack has commented, "we aren't even made of the same stuff the universe...
Once upon a time, an ogre named Shrek lived in a mythical but nonetheless insalubrious swamp. He was green. He was overweight. He liked to take mud showers. He made candles out of his own earwax. Understandably, he led a rather lonely life. He pretended he preferred it that...
...character of Shrek, voiced by Mike Myers, a smelly ogre who enjoys solitude. The isolation of his home, however, is threatened by the power-hungry, midget Lord Farquaad (John Lithgow '67) who forcefully relocates all the fairy tale characters from his theme-park-like kingdom to Shrek's swamp. In order to live in peace, Shrek strikes a deal with Farquaad: if the ogre rescues Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz) from her enchanted castle, the evil ruler will remove the new members of Shrek's swamp community. Add an incessantly talking donkey sidekick (voiced by Eddie Murphy...
...compromise: Brazil originally wanted it set for 2010.) The latest efforts by the NAFTA forces involved suggestions to push forward the 2005 deadline for the FTAA's launching to 2003. The Brazilians have cold-shouldered the idea. Foreign Minister Lafer says a two-year speed-up would swamp domestic industries with a flood of low-priced goods before his country is ready. "We're joining the FTAA only if it's convenient for us," Lafer told TIME last week. Brazil gained support in that position from Venezuelan president Chávez, a strident critic of the U.S., who flew down...
Forty Harvard students cleared 20 cubic yards of trash from the Alewife Reservation-100 acres of swamp, forest and fields housing hundreds of species of animals. They exhumed tires and shopping carts, a 300-pound safe, a steel gallon drum and even a kitchen sink...