Word: wastelanders
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...booted out as number one excuse for being late to tutorial in favor of, “I just found out my roommate has scabies.” (Unlike the library line, there are no questions asked.) And next time a survey comes out declaring Harvard College a sexual wasteland, we have a rebuttal. In effect, scabies has lent Harvard students a small bit of sexual legitimacy, even if it doesn’t require genital contact for transmission...
...middle of the 20th century, China's population boom and demand for more meat sent livestock numbers soaring. By 1990, some regions were literally grazed bare, herders whose animals were dying off descended into poverty, and grasslands that used to harbor hundreds of plant species had turned to wasteland...
...very embarrassed. So this is the way the world sees us! Yet I would really like to put in a word for a politician who is trying to do his best: Pier Luigi Bersani is striving to put an end to some of the most striking anomalies in the wasteland of the government. Unfortunately, he is more and more alone in his quest. Roberta Fazzi, MOTRONI, ITALY...
...very embarrassed. So this is the way the world sees us! Yet I would really like to put in a word for a politician who is trying to do his best: Pier Luigi Bersani is striving to put an end to some of the most striking anomalies in the wasteland of the government. Unfortunately, he is more and more alone in his quest. Roberta Fazzi, Motroni, Italy...
Since then the differences between Kurdistan and Iraq proper have become even more dramatic. The plains around Arbil--once a glaring semidesert wasteland--are exploding with luxury housing developments. They have names like British Village, which resembles a gated California suburb, and Dream City, which supposedly will have its own conference center, supermarket and American-style school. The Turkish developers of Naz City, a high-rise condominium complex, are trying to sell house-proud Kurds on modern apartment living. An American company wants to build Iraq's first ski resort in the mountains near the Turkish and Iranian borders. While...