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...point is well taken: criminal sanctions are a difficult, awkward way to do battle against people's vices. As long as millions of Americans want to pay fortunes for diluted cocaine, cocaine will get to them, the law be damned. Another DEA veteran poses the problem this way: "The only way to stop the trade is to stop the production or stop the demand. And we can't stop the source...
...compressed by an external electric pump. Two 6-ft.-long air tubes, which emerge from beneath the rib cage, connect the heart to the pump and to emergency tanks of compressed air and other equipment, all of which are stored on a cart. Total weight of the awkward external system...
...sponge releases its spermicide gradually, killing and absorbing sperm before they can reach the cervix. Unlike the diaphragm, the device-called Today-stays effective for 24 hours (hence the name) regardless of how many times the user has intercourse, and there is said to be nothing messy or awkward about it. A small polyester loop attached to the sponge makes removal easy. Vorhauer, the president of V.L.I., expects to start selling the contraceptives this fall, at about $1 apiece...
...made the right decision going to Notre Dame because being the coach's son is very, very awkward." Restic says, adding. "I don't think he would have been able to share the total squad experience Everyone else on the team knows that whatever happens, it will get back to the coach I wouldn't have Joe isolated and separated for four years...
Occasionally Levine's imagery does hit the mark, such as her description of an awkward new couple who, "having chewed through the enamel of their date," find only "the raw nerve hanging in the air before them." Unfortunately, however, such insights are few and far between. More often, Levine's ideas collapse under the weight of her evident reverence for Harvard. Levine went to school here, She should know better...