The development would then build a database of its canine residents and could compare poop found in verboten places with the master list and identify the culprit, a la the OJ trial or way too many TV crime shows to count.

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Outside of beaches, city parks and sidewalks, one common boiling over point in the poop wars is planned subdivisions, residential developments, and apartment buildings, where dog owners and non-owners share close quarters, adjacent homes, and often common or commonly owned areas including roadways and landscaping.

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In its first four years, Terracycle raked in about half-a-million dollars in revenue selling liquefied worm poop at large retail chains such as Wal Mart, Target, and Home Depot.

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Meanwhile, Google invested in the power of pig poop and researchers rolled out a new inexpensive, powerful, and lightweight jelly battery that could one day power laptops and electric vehicles.

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Such philosophical musings aside, dog poop is one of many contentious issues in our highly concentrated urbanized and suburbanized society, where dog owners are often separated from their neighbors by nothing more than an invisible fence.

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If any of these symptoms develop in the days or weeks that follow you might talk to your doctor about having your child's stool evaluated for an infection since dog poop may contain bacteria and sometimes parasites (such as roundworms, or Toxocara canis) that can cause illness in humans.

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In one of the movie's funniest jibes, she submits to an excruciating beauty treatment involving bird poop, snails and scorpion stings (a fairytale botox) to give her that extra edge -- a regimen that's probably only a slight exaggeration on what Hollywood royalty routinely puts up with to keep in front of the cameras past a certain age.

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