Word: trashings
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...Jianshe Street in the devastated center of the town of Dujiangyan, amid mud and trash and slabs of concrete sheared from building facades, a group of young soldiers in green-gray raincoats stand in a semicircle, chests out and arms interlocked. They face off against the mourners and gawkers who have come to watch the bodies being carried out of the pile of tangled gray debris that was once the Xinjian Elementary School...
...it’s adequate for most people.” The audience burst into applause by the end of his question.Cischke agreed but stressed the complexity of the issue. “We have to make driving a big vehicle just as unacceptable as throwing trash on the ground,” Cischke said, “but you have to have the market coming together at the right time to implement these changes.”—Staff writer Natasha S. Whitney can be reached at nwhitney@fas.harvard.edu...
...McCanns' understandable effort to keep their daughter's fate in the headlines inadvertently turned them into celebrities, he says. "The result is two negatives: they're seen as by some as bad parents, and they're famous for being bad parents. So, there's been a license to trash them. And it's cruel." In the documentary, the couple reveal the type of hate mail they've received. One writer called them "scum" and said their "drunken arrogance" was to blame for their missing "brat...
...Yard is quiet, except for the beeping of a truck in reverse and the fluttering of posters. The neon-green grass looks perky, and even the homeless man picking bottles out of the trash seems strangely idyllic...
...Poster-Remover waddles over to the poster boards, a large trash bag billowing in his hand. At this sight, directions are shouted overhead and teams disperse. Some begin with a brisk but restrained stroll, but sensing others gaining speed, break into...