The salt level in Egypt's precious soil is rising steadily, groundwater is threatened and there is an epidemic of bilharzia, a nasty, chronic illness caused by a parasitic worm that loves dirty, standing water.
I wouldn't want to do that....I'd feel dirty standing there telling them, "Oh, by the way, I have Chlamydia and you have to get yourself checked out".
I don't mean the dirty standing on the corner of Main St. loves contact, but I mean the genuinely social affectionate people.
"A photo of a dirty child standing before a tent captures that child's horror," Dale Maharidge writes in "Someplace Like America: Tales from the New Great Depression," a 2011 work in the Agee-Evans grain, with photographs by Michael S. Williamson.
A woman dressed in rags, carrying an incredibly dirty baby, standing on the roadside, begging.
Avoid leaving dirty dishes and standing water for ants to drink and do not put food in the drain.
"The mussels, syringes, crabs, condoms - this is dirty," Mr. O'Brien said, standing in stagnant black groundwater up to his thighs and pointing around at the bits of city trash, small mollusks and dead crustaceans stuck to the brown and white clumps of algae on the walls.
He departed to the strains of Michael Jackson's "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'," the song played at Microsoft's first employee meeting in 1983, followed by "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" from the finale of "Dirty Dancing," getting a standing ovation from the 13,000 or so Microsoft full-time employees in attendance.
Both boxers are standing, but the dirty rice landed more punches.
I was wet, dirty, pouring sweat, embarrassed, and standing before one the icons of my chosen profession, in which I had no formal training, education, or experience.
After the 50-minute flight, we waited an hour to get off the plane and would wait another hour standing around a dirty carousel before receiving our luggage.
