So our species might have picked up the habit from watching other animals, lots of which eat dirt.
A plant near Toledo, Ohio, accumulated 900 pounds, some of which ate away a football-size chunk of steel in the vessel lid, leaving only a thin stainless-steel liner and bringing the plant uncomfortably close to accident.
The rest consisted of acidobacteria--some strains of which eat iron oxide--and other bacterial types, the team reports in the 21 May issue of Federation of European Microbiological Societies Microbiology Letters.
It also sports numerous features that explain how multituberculates, many of which ate both plants and crawly things such as worms and spiders and which were capable of burrowing, jumping, and climbing trees got off to such a good evolutionary start.
By doing this, both doctors and patients have a clearer understanding of which eating behaviors need to be treated, instead of shrugging it off as "unspecified".
Insects recovered from inflorescences include the banksia boring moth (Arotrophora canthelias), younger instars of which eat flower and bract parts before tunneling into the rachis as they get older and boring into follicles and eating seeds.
During the 2000 Canadian federal election, Hudema was part of a group calling itself the Edible Ballot Society, the members of which ate their ballots (Hudema stir-fried his) as a protest against what they saw as a lack of true democracy and a system that only asked for individuals' participation once every four years.
But Ms. Brooks said she wanted to work — and needed to — citing her monthly mortgage of $1,500, which eats up half her monthly pension.
Models will pay £250 a day for the use of a car, which eats up their earnings, she says.
But Businessweek's covers apparently aren't for regular readers; it designs them for the rest of the media, which eats them up.
