When the trucks don’t arrive in time at a sewage plant near Cutler Bay, the smell from 350 tons of tarry black muck leftover from the daily processing of human waste can spread.
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Douglas Hanks,
Miami Herald,
7 Feb. 2025
There are accounts of brown, swirling muck near the landfill, of barrels leaching amber ooze into the grasses and ground.
The cruise line’s private island features two freshwater lagoons, a 1.2-mile white sand beach and plenty of activities to keep busy, and will be called upon by its ships departing from Galveston, Jacksonville, Miami, Mobile, Port Canaveral, and Tampa.
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Susan B. Barnes,
Southern Living,
16 Mar. 2025
The sand is eroded into curious little ditches, and there’s litter underfoot, the mummified remains of dead fish.
Oh, and—little detail—the earth’s surface has, apparently, been wiped clean by a world-historic climate event and a nuclear war, and everybody who survived is living in a bunker gussied up by its billionaire overlords to look like a perpetually temperate American suburb.
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Vinson Cunningham,
The New Yorker,
17 Mar. 2025
With the ongoing hostilities, famine, and disease, among others, Sudan is hell on earth for children.
Those interactions spring from the rich loam of history and lore that gives the sport its halcyon glow, and from which even a humble amateur game absorbs vicarious grandeur.
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Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
7 Mar. 2025
Carrots need a loose loam or sandy soil and plenty of moisture.
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