Mardi Gras transforms New Orleans into waste bin

As Mardi Gras continues in New Orleans today, aside from the scantily clad dancing girls, the parties, the drunk people falling all over themselves in the street, there is also the unmistakable smell of trash...

Scandal of the SATS: How exam paper littered with grammatical errors scored H...

" A headmistress is demanding her pupils' SATs papers be remarked after an exam paper littered with grammatical mistakes scored higher than a literate, fluently written one. Janis Burdin, head of Moss Side Primary School in Chorley, Lancashire released two examples - by...

Britain's roads 'littered with potholes' despite record taxes

Staples Corner Barnet, London, Gower Street, Camden, London WC1E, Avenue Road London NW8 and Edgware Road Barnet, London, are just a few of the roads in the capital which need resurfacing...."The Government...

Taco Bell offers Tacos to Striking Writers for "FREE Ad Jingles".

Somehow Taco Bells concern doesn't wash when the Entertainment  Industry's Top Movie and Televison Writers are offered Free Tacos for a year for writing a winning Taco Bell Ad Jingle, which in the real world...

Whiteout Causes Over 100 Vehicles to Crash on Ontario Highway

Not a real surprise that driving conditions were so terrible, it's been freezing cold and blowing snow on and off all week here in Toronto."Whiteout conditions were a factor Sunday for a multi-car pileup on a...

Inherit the Wind

The Gulf Coast is littered with the carcasses of unused oil equipment. Now those structures are being repurposed to build the first offshore wind farm in the United States.The port of Iberia has never been busier. Situated on a narrow canal leading to the Louisiana coastline,...

Orbiting Junk Threatens Satellites and Spacecraft

We all think of outer space as limitless, but the bit of outer space that lies within Earth's gravitational pull is getting rather crowded. Much like the phenomenon of overflowing landfills, this seems to be an inevitability that nobody in control of policy spent much time...

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