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...lack of medical care. The other three, Lisa (15), Monica (14) and Alexander (12) lived in the house, attended the local school, and appeared to be normal. Josef allegedly told his wife that their daughter had run away to join a cult and had left the babies on the doorstep of the house. He produced a letter allegedly from her, which was quoted in the Austrian press: "Don't try to find me, it would be pointless and would increase my suffering and the suffering of my children. Also too much education and too many children are unwanted there...
Yellow pages may soon go green if Cambridge City Councillor Sam Seidel gets his wish. The council voted unanimously on Monday to look into an eco-friendly plan that would allow residents to opt out of having phone books delivered to their front doorstep. “You and all your friends look up most of your phone numbers on the Internet now,” said Seidel, who earned an urban planning degree from the Graduate School of Design in 2001 and won a Council seat last fall. “The Internet has become the new phone book...
...there. Morning hours are also the least convenient hours in the day to draw women and religious minorities from river houses that the new policy is supposedly aimed at benefiting. Why make a trek at eight in the morning when there’s a gym right outside your doorstep? Well, for us Quadlings, the QRAC is right outside our doorstep...
...blind eye to an international crisis. Because of previous inaction, the crisis will come to a head this year. As it looks right now, possible outcomes can only include violent resistance in Kosovo, a disillusioned and hostile Serbia, and more tensions right on the EU’s doorstep. The safety and self-interest of 27 EU members hang on a prudent solution in Kosovo. However slim, the chance of such a solution is worth striving for. The only way to have no losers in Kosovo is through the supranational philosophy embodied by the EU. Sadly, the EU has already...
...freewheeling interview published in Sunday's Daily Mirror, Anne Darwin said her husband, gaunt and filthy, materialized on her doorstep in February, 2003, 11 months after he disappeared. Until that point, she told the newspaper, she had thought he was dead - even though he had mentioned faking his death to escape from their swelling debt. "He said he had done it for us so we didn't lose everything, which I know seems rather ironic now," she said...