Word: trashes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This low-grade name-calling is ridiculous. I propose that next year's Harvard-Brown game be replaced by a WWF Smackdown-style confrontation in which the top five trash-talkers from each team sit at midfield, facing each other Family Feud style. Each can have a microphone, with the captain of each team serving...
...smells," Myers says, surveying the room. "There's mildew on the floor. The trash can is overflowing, and the sinks are dirty. There's all kinds of garbage by the toilet...
...profile, recorded on a chip, will let doctors--or, more likely, their computerized diagnostic tools--determine your exact level of risk for a particular disease and which proteins and enzymes your body lacks. There will be no more wasteful trial and error, with costly pills winding up in the trash because they produced unwelcome reactions or didn't work for you. Instead you'll get customized prescriptions, created to "fit" on the very first try, like a Savile Row suit...
...garbage. That means each man, woman and child tossed out an average of nearly 1,600 lbs. of banana peels, Cheerios boxes, gum wrappers, Coke cans, ratty sofas, TIME magazines, car batteries, disposable diapers, yard trimmings, junk mail, worn-out Nikes--plus whatever else goes into your trash cans. An equivalent weight of water could fill 68,000 Olympic-size pools...
...really bad news is that most of the planet's 6 billion people are just beginning to follow in the trash-filled footsteps of the U.S. and the rest of the developed world. "Either we need to control ourselves or nature will," says Gary Liss of Loomis, Calif., a veteran of recycling and solid-waste programs who advises clients aiming to reduce landfill deposits. As he sees it, garbage--maybe every last pound of it--needs to become a vile thing of the past...