Word: wormed
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...baser terms, the man is selling worm s___ wrapped in used plastic. The company has earned accolades for its minimal environmental impact (and is happy to trash talk competitors on their records). And the plant food is a hit with retailers. TerraCycle rolled out its products en masse in the U.S. earlier this year. They're carried in more than 7,000 stores across the country. The privately owned company took in $1 million in the first quarter of 2006, and sales are growing 300% to 600% each year...
TerraCycle staff members also must deal with components that differ slightly from those in the last batch--worm excrement with nitrate levels a touch lower than last month's, nozzles that don't fit properly in the boxes being shipped to stores. "There tends to be a lot of variability, so you have to be vigilant about quality control," says Cotton. The company's vice president of R&D, Bill Gillum, rolls his eyes. "Variability is a good word for it," he says. Fixing the never ending problems takes ingenuity and typically a lot of labor. But that...
...example, without noticing some object that she can use to vivify her message. In the film she takes particular pride in some molds that can turn Jello into a model of the human brain. She uses these, she says, to demonstrate how dark thoughts and bad words can worm their way into the human cortex. Before the summer session begins, she blesses her camp's fairly sophisticated audio-visual system to make certain the devil doesn't get into it and make it go blooey at some inopportune moment. One of the high points of the week's merriment...
...things, and then there's Paul Cocksedge, 28, who was shortlisted for the U.K.'s Designer of the Year award in 2004. Light as Air, the result of the Londoner's experiments with glass blowing, is his most beguiling work yet. As organic in appearance as an undersea tube worm, it can be used on your desk or as a freestanding objet d'art. www.paulcocksedge.co.uk...
...GUINEA WORM DISEASE $25 million to combat illness caused by a parasitic worm, which lives in fleas that infest standing water, mainly in Africa...