Word: soiling
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...painting curls of hair as if they were twirls of a whirlpool. In a premonition of the Gaia hypothesis, which compares the planet to a living organism, he writes poetically, "We may say that the earth has a spirit of growth, and that its flesh is the soil; its bones are the successive strata of the rocks...its cartilage is the tufa stone; its blood the veins of its waters...
...Michel Peissel and British photographer Sebastian Guinness say they have located the gold-digging ants on Pakistan's Dansar plain near the tense 1949 cease-fire line with India. The "ants," it turns out, are actually marmots, cat-size rodents that burrow in a gold-bearing stratum of sandy soil a few feet underground. Peissel believes Herodotus' confusion came from the ancient Persian word for marmot, which means mountain...
...What we're hoping for," says Norm Haynes, a director of the Mars exploration program, "is a ship that will return a soil sample from Mars. That's the long-range goal of the program." Smaller ships, it appears, may not get a human being to Mars, but they may help bring a bit of Mars back to Earth...
Latham, who represents a district with more than 18,000 sq. mi. of the nation's most fertile soil, told voters he would take his rural values to Washington. He calls himself a "progressive conservative"; as a deficit hawk, he was named a Taxpayer's Hero by the Council for the Citizens Against Government Waste. You can even check the national debt's growth on Latham's Website www.house.gov/latham)...
BORN: Feb. 22, 1938, Fines Creek EDUCATION: North Carolina State U, 1956-57 FAMILY: Divorced; seven children RELIGION: Baptist MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Agribusiness POLITICAL CAREER: North Carolina Soil and Water Conservation Commission, 1967-; Haywood County school board, 1970-74, 1982-1990; Chair, Southwestern North Carolina Resource Conservation and Development Council, 1995- ADDRESS: Route 3, Box 43, Clyde...