Most journalists spend their time trying to make cracking stories out of a world that's mundane, where quotes are inelegantly phrased and the truth is complex.
They stepped gingerly onto the grassy verge, hitched up their silky skirts and squatted down inelegantly, knees akimbo, to relieve themselves noisily, chattering and cackling away loudly.
The rule -- inelegantly called the "conditional waiver of waste discharge requirements for discharges from irrigated lands," or the ag waiver, for short -- aims to heal those water ills.