Word: soiled
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...Harvard will probably make a bid, but the property is less valuable to us or anyone else than it appears at first. The property is encumbered with leases and other restrictions, and the soil conditions and other environmental problems are formidable challenges," he wrote in an e-mail message...
People forget that 500 years ago, China was the world's sole superpower. When many Europeans were living in mud huts and scratching the soil with sticks, China was the greatest economic and military power on earth. A hundred years before Europe began its mastery of Asia and America, China had the biggest and best navy in the world. But for an accident of history, Europe would be speaking Chinese today. China discovered the inventions that would pave the way to world mastery for those who put them to use: the printing press, gunpowder and the magnetic compass. Given this...
...blackface-minstrel shows and demeaning "darky" jokes. He supported the noxious pre-Civil War "Black Laws," which stripped African Americans of their basic rights in his native Illinois, as well as the Fugitive Slave Act, which compelled the return to their masters of those who had escaped to free soil in the North. But Bennett's main theme is that Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was only "a ploy" designed to keep as many slaves in bondage as possible until Lincoln could build support for his plan for ending slavery: "colonization," a preposterous scheme to ship the black population either...
...Scotland. Then, about a decade later, the Norse reached Iceland. Experts believe as many as 12,000 Viking immigrants ultimately settled there, taking their farm animals with them. (Inadvertently, they also brought along mice, dung beetles, lice, human fleas and a host of animal parasites, whose remains, trapped in soil, are helping archaeologists form a detailed picture of early medieval climate and Viking life. Bugs, for example, show what sort of livestock the Norse kept...
...looks as if environmental and consumer activists aren't the only ones feeling nervous about the genetically modified (GM) crops currently sprouting from American soil. On Wednesday, hoping to stave off a European-style anti-GM panic, the Clinton administration announced a laundry list of procedures designed to make Americans a bit more comfortable in the presence of so-called "Frankenfoods." The proposed changes will establish government oversight with regard to labeling foods made with genetically altered crops (including an industry-opposed measure to label products as GM-free); allow the Food and Drug Administration a four-month lead time...