Villagers collect it and smelt it in woks over open fires in their backyards, trying to sell the extracted lead content of the slag.

The accident at Thor has already produced consequences a wider awareness on the part of the public caused many companies to keep their backyards in order.

We proactively and systematically promoted these practices to many hospitals in India, many in our own backyards and then in other parts of the world as well.

Whaling should stop because it brings needless suffering to social, intelligent animals capable of enjoying their own lives. But against the Japanese charge of cultural bias, Western countries will have little defense until they address the needless animal suffering in their own backyards.

And now, what the world really needs is for you to help me and our partners take some of what we have learned in Namibia to other places with similar problems places like Mongolia, or even in your own backyards, the Northern Great Plains, where buffalo and other animals have suffered and many communities are in decline.

Here's another operation. It's all cottage industries, so it's not big places it's all in people's front porches, in their backyards, even in their homes they're burning boards, if there's a concern for somebody coming by because it is considered in China to be illegal, doing it, but they can't stop the product from coming in.

Instead of entrusting America with the arduous task of safeguarding international stability on its own, the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) will assume a more prominent role in policing their own backyards. Russia can have its Caucasus, and if the generals in Myanmar should go mad, it would become China s and India s problem to sort out.

I was never the likeliest candidate for this office. We didn't start with much money or many endorsements. Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington. It began in the backyards of Des Moines, and the living rooms of Concord, and the front porches of Charleston. It was built by working men and women who dug into what little savings they had to give 5 and 10 and 20 to the cause.