1.   The decaying bodies provide a vital surge of fertilizer into the ecosystem.

2.   Clean-up workers also will have to deal with the psychological trauma of finding decaying bodies as they remove the material.

3.   In February, hundreds of decaying bodies that were supposed to have been cremated were found on the grounds of a Georgia crematory.

4.   That, along with the looming problem of decaying bodies, is creating a health hazard.

5.   The stench of the decaying bodies on the hillside was so pungent, Vjollca Ukshinaj had to cover her face to keep from vomiting.

6.   The worms apparently lived beneath a thick mat of single-celled organisms whose decaying bodies provided food while the mat itself gave them oxygen, Seilacher said.

7.   What he sees as the physical perfection of her youth allows for some ruminations on mortal dependence on decaying bodies and the ways in which time warps hopes.

8.   Only the smell of decaying bodies is leading rescuers to find them, she said.

9.   Passers-by wore surgical masks and handkerchiefs to ward off the unbearable stench of trapped decaying bodies and of feces and urine in the streets.

10.   -- A team from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was being brought in to deal with the increasing health threat from decaying bodies in the rubble.