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...Perhaps the nastiest scandal emerged with a video taken by one of the construction workers at the Olympic site who have gone on strike to demand months of unpaid wages. Posted March 11 on the website blogsochi.ru, the video shows squalid conditions like overflowing latrines, fields of mud, an army tent serving as a chow hall and a shower stall that had been padlocked shut. "It's totally unsanitary," the anonymous narrator says. Another worker confirmed to TIME that he went on strike because he hadn't received his full wages since September. "After a week or so, the bosses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trouble in Sochi: Russia's Mounting Olympic Problems | 3/19/2010 | See Source »

This distance is ameliorated in part by the super convenient shuttle. When you have a 10 a.m. class in Northwest Labs during the nastiest sleet-rain-blizzard in February, you’ll thank the River Gods that you don’t live in some of the other River Houses, which are roughly equidistant to the Yard but sadly shuttle-less...

Author: By Melody Y. Hu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Housing Market Reviews: Dunster House | 3/8/2010 | See Source »

...world, and they scrambled to reach Half Moon Bay, better known for its fog and eerie fields of pumpkins. Advertisers figured out swiftly that nothing sells better to the youth market than the heroic (and rebellious) image of a lone surfer eluding an awful pounding by nature at her nastiest. This year's contest is sponsored by, among others, a whiskey distiller, a telecommunications giant and a private-equity fund - enterprises that, on the surface, have little to do with either water or sports. Clark has since broken with the contest organizers, explaining to TIME, "I don't want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Surfing Super Bowl: Facing the Mavericks | 2/12/2010 | See Source »

...staple diet of vultures around the world, with heavily medicated livestock. Diclofenac, a frequently administered anti-inflammatory veterinary painkiller comparable to ibuprofen, has proven to be particularly deadly to the vultures that ingest it secondhand. Though the birds by design have "very strong stomach fluids" that digest even the nastiest of pathogens, this particular drug has proven too much, says Tom Aversa of Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo. After populations' decreasing numbers were first noted in the 1980s, it was found that diclofenac residue in livestock carcasses was causing kidney failure and visceral gout in the birds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Restaurant for Vultures. Literally | 8/15/2009 | See Source »

...image] showed a panhandling dolphin, a guy reaching into his back pocket to give him some money, and a woman yelling something at him. I just tried to think about stereotypical things people think about dolphins and panhandlers. Dolphins are intelligent. And one of the most common and nastiest things people say about panhandlers is that they should get a job. And I thought of the caption (registration required). That didn't go over well with my colleagues, because I'm a poverty lawyer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Win the New Yorker Caption Contest | 6/8/2009 | See Source »

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