Word: wente
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...Aluoi Valley, a Vietnamese botanist raised $25,000 in donations to plant cactus-like bushes and thorn trees around contaminated areas to prevent villagers from entering to fish there. (Dioxins quickly accumulate in animal fat.) Though these are not long-term solutions, Hatfield found that after the simple barriers went up, dioxin levels in the blood and breast milk of nearby residents dropped dramatically...
...When I went into the class, I saw the graphic videos and texts as just titillating,” Iris Lee ’12 says. “It was novel. But later in the class, Professor Kaiser explains how sexuality was taking sex too seriously...
...reading the following correction from Lexington, Kent., Herald-Leader: "It has come to the editor's attention that the Herald-Leader neglected to cover the Civil Rights Movement. We regret the omission." Silverman has been tracking media-related corrections ever since. Regret the Error's annual "best of" list went up Dec. 16 (you can find it here). Reading it is like taking a stroll through the aftermath of a particularly amusing Jay Leno "Headlines" skit. (Read TIME's Top 10 'Fails...
...claim they've seen - or been abducted by - UFOs. Among these witnesses are more than a few famous names. Miyuki Hatoyama, wife of the current Japanese Prime Minister, wrote in a 2008 autobiography that one night while she was sleeping "my soul rode on a triangular-shaped UFO and went to Venus." (Her soul was later returned.) U.S. Representative Dennis Kucinich provided one of the oddest moments in the tumultuous 2008 presidential elections when he affirmed in a televised debate that in the 1980s, he and actress Shirley MacLaine witnessed an unidentified flying object over her house. "You have...
...scientists went on to demonstrate that the viewers were unaware of the clips' effect. In another part of the study, students were asked to watch the same pro-white and pro-black clips, but this time they were also instructed to be on the look- out for evidence of subtle biased behavior. Afterward, viewers were asked to determine whether white characters or black characters were treated better...