Faeces in groundwater spread diseases such as encephalitis, an annual post-monsoon scourge in eastern Uttar Pradesh.
Moscow has some strong public schools, but the system as a whole is dispiriting, in part because it is being corroded by the corruption that is a post-Soviet scourge.
I know Matt Yglesias is probably trolling, as the kids say, with his post on "the scourge of doomed campus relationships," but I'll rise to the bait and say something about his argument that a sexual culture of strings-free hookups is brilliantly suited to today's socioeconomic landscape: I'm all for monogamous relationships and falling in love and getting married.
In fact, they are regularly cited as triggers for many serious complications, including Shaken Baby Syndrome, marital stress, SIDS, over-medication of the infant... and the increasingly common scourge, post-partum depression (PPD).
The controversy became the scourge of post-menopausal women everywhere looking for some relief from their misery.
The Huffington Post, often seen as the scourge of old-line print publications, is jumping into the digital magazine business.
Twenty thousand uniformed officers showed up for each funeral, Mayor Bloomberg challenged legislators to "stand up and start doing something about this terrible scourge," and the Post introduced a special logo featuring a compact pistol and the words "The Gun Menace".
Twenty thousand uniformed officers showed up for each funeral, Mayor Bloomberg challenged legislators to "stand up and start doing something about this terrible scourge," and the Post introduced a special logo featuring a compact pistol and the words "The Gun Menace*.*" Amid this burst of activity, Jim Mintz, a private investigator, was working quietly behind the steel doors of his Tribeca office.
He is a superb celebrator of science in all its manifestations, as well as being a scourge of bogus, post-modernist, relativist pseudo-science, and so-called New Age thinking".
The scourge of office cleaners and the obsession of list freaks, Post-It notes have peeled out of the factory of US manufacturing giant, 3M, in their billions since their serendipitous invention nearly 35 years ago.
The biggest local scourge according to his posts was the many Indigenous people in and around Thunder Bay, whom he referred to as "Chugs," "Injuns," and "tee-pee n----s".
