Word: soiled
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...humans--though they can be carriers--animals develop painful lesions of the hooves and mouth, leading to weight loss, falling milk production and spontaneous abortion. As many as 90% survive, but their robustness never returns, and they become useless commercially. So easily does the disease spread--through air and soil and even on the shoes of farmers and the tires of their trucks--that just 10 viral particles could, experts say, render all U.S. cattle unsuitable for export...
Before the hearing, Cohen had told me, "This is the last battle of the Spanish Civil War, and I think Franco will win again." His prediction was correct; the committee voted unanimously against the plaque. This time fascism won on American soil...
Civil war, drought, famine, invasion and tyranny have been tramping back and forth across the weary soil of this miserable nation for so long that the prospects of its recovery, even if the Taliban were to vanish tomorrow, are distant at best. And now the Taliban have outraged world opinion with yet another bizarre and fanatic provocation. The leading Taliban mullah, Mohammed Omar, declared that since the Koran forbade the worship of idols, all idols in the country (meaning, for the most part, Buddhist sculpture made before the arrival of the Muslims in the 8th century) were to be destroyed...
...decade-and one can see why so many farmers seem buffeted by forces beyond their control. Farmers in Britain questioned why the government allows the import of any beef from countries such as Botswana, Brazil and Argentina, where foot-and-mouth is endemic. Says Patrick Holden, director of the Soil Association, an organic farming lobbying group: "The globalization of agriculture is presumed to be a good thing, treating food commodities like processed steel and shipping it around the globe. We don't want that anymore...
...lecture at the Science Center sponsored by the University Committee on Environment, Swaminathan outlined what he called an "ever-green revolution" that would produce continued productivity gains but prevent farmers from exhausting the soil and water supply...