The jobs envisioned are building classrooms, digging a water system or saving babies.
When he commanded the 1st Cavalry Division in Baghdad from March 2004 to March 2005, he reduced the violence in the Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City by putting many of the fighting-age men to work digging a sewer system.
WASHINGTON — When the Taliban dug an elaborate tunnel system beneath the largest prison in southern Afghanistan this spring, they set off a scramble to catch the 475 inmates who escaped.
The pocket gopher is also a solitary animal outside the breeding season, each individual digging a complex tunnel system and maintaining a territory.
ALTHOUGH the final price tag on the Landau home is yet to be determined, Mr. Landau's back-of-the-napkin estimate in June was $200,000 for site work like installing the foundation and a septic system, digging a well and bringing power to the site.
Work on the house included adding insulation, creating a drainage system, digging a new foundation to combat the dampness and converting the attic into the family's main living space, which now includes a kitchen, bathroom, dining area, living room, master bedroom and loft sleeping area.
Casa Grande, situated on 473 acres along the Gila River, is all that remains of an ancient civilization of farmers known as the Hohokam -- a Pima Indian word for "those who are gone" -- who dug by hand a system of crop irrigation canals.
"This is ESPN's way of delivering value to the cable systems while digging a deeper moat around our brand to solidify it," Robert A. Iger, Disney's president, said.
As soon as they're old enough to stumble around with a pail and shovel, these sweet little toddlers turn into a creatures known as "the beach menaces," throwing sand everywhere and somehow always finding the space next to yours as the ideal spot to dig a huge crater with canal systems to the water, just when you thought you'd found a nice, quiet spot to unwind with a good book.
A portable toilet system allows you to dig a hole in the soil, set up over it and do what needs doing.
