The study of garbage, through either archaeological excavation of landfills or analysis of fresh garbage, to determine what the composition of municipal solid waste says about the society that generated it. The term is associated with the Garbage...

For uses of this term in reference to espionage or identity theft, see Dumpster diving Garbology was a word invented by AJ Weberman to describe his study of Bob Dylan's trash. Its primary academic meaning now is the study of refuse and trash. It is an...

FARMING needs water. In Tunisia, which wants to increase its agricultural exports and earn hard currency, that means digging deep, expensive wells to aquifers--regions of porous rock containing water. The amount of water a greenhouse needs can be reduced by using drip-irrigation, where the...

I absolutely hate lawyers. -Kitty Kelley Kitty Kelley has said it again and again: She really can't abide lawyers. She pays them thousands, cannot be free of them, has suffered their depositions and inquisitions. Of her famous subjects, she has griped, "Jackie's very...