Word: soiling
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...officers encounter anyone from the rowdy homeless in front of Store 24 to crazed bike thieves skulking around Peabody Terrace. As all Harvard parents would sleep safe knowing, HUPD patrols the campus 24-7. It may not be New Haven, but like any city, crime oozes from the Cambridge soil...
...nesting area had been protected by fences and left to grow wild until last November. At that time, the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC), which is in charge of Boston-area parks, filled the area with soil and seeded grass. Now, people can walk down to the river on a gravel path...
Elian's relatives in the U.S. are not eager to oblige the father's wishes, and on first reading, immigration law seems to support their cause: According to the 1966 Cuban Adjustment Act, any Cuban who touches U.S. soil is entitled to apply for political asylum. There are no overt age restrictions on the law, only a supposition of comprehension. So the crux of the debate is whittled down to one question: Can a six-year-old understand what the word "asylum" truly means...
...Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is offering six positions to interns for improving or maintaining the health of plants for livestock forage, watershed and soil protection, wildlife forage and recreation. Don't worry, they'll provide the training you need...
Intrigued, he found other patches of this black earth elsewhere in the Amazon. Mixed into this loamish soil was evidence of prehistoric man: charcoal, occasional stone axheads made from meteorites, and a lump of manioc bread preserved in natural tree gum. "If we can find out how these so-called primitives made this soil," reckons Van Roosmalen, "we can use it as an alternative to destructive slash-and-burn agriculture." Unfortunately, since the river tribes that knew the secret were all wiped out by European raiding parties 500 years ago, the scientist must start from scratch...