1.   They dug in garbage piles, looking for anything at all, banana skins, orange peels, discarded greens.

2.   A good chunk of their work day is spent picking through garbage piles looking for clues to identify the culprits.

3.   Hungry children digging through garbage piles using shovels from a Mickey and Minnie Mouse sand-castle set.

4.   Maybe the whole thing deserves the garbage pile.

5.   Unable to find work, he now begs on the streets and picks through garbage piles, collecting fruit rinds and butcher scraps.

6.   Police used tear gas to disperse striking municipal trash collectors Wednesday as garbage piles around Athens grew large enough to block traffic on many city streets.

7.   Growing garbage piles also are breeding grounds for disease.

8.   However, many residents suspect that once the last athletes have returned home, the march towards more concrete, polluting cars and bigger garbage piles will continue.

9.   Police used tear gas on Wednesday to disperse striking municipal trash collectors, as garbage piles around Athens grew large enough to block traffic on many city streets.

10.   Rescuers cleaned up a toxic spill Friday caused when industrial thermometers containing mercury were dumped in a garbage pile in the Russian Far East, officials said.