With other liquor companies that load the landfills and dump waste into the seas that surround the Caribbean, it is nice to know that there are efforts being made to keep our fragile earth clean.

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Ignorance spawns scares, such as the fuss surrounding New York's infamous garbage barge, which in 1987 sailed the Atlantic for six months in search of a place to dump its load, giving many Americans the false impression that their country's landfills had run out of space.

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Another approach effectively steers magnetic nanoparticles toward disease sites where they dump their therapeutic load or else destroy cancerous tissue with heat.

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