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...told students that the recent legislation has extended the definition of domestic terrorism so as to equate some acts of basic protests with subversive activity...
Despite the recent split in Europe over the Iraq war, “there is a sort of basic trend toward some expression of unity,” said Giscard d’Estaing...
Research of this type may shed light on the basic biology of infection and help to identify possible targets for therapeutic intervention in diseases such as AIDS and hepatitis, the MacArthur Foundation said in a press release...
Many of these poor children, and 8.5 million American children in all, are routinely denied annual checkups and basic treatment for their illnesses because they are uninsured. Another 13 million children are clinically overweight, according to the Centers for Disease Control, in part because many of them are also poor and uninsured and can afford only cheap, unhealthy food. Childhood obesity increases the likelihood of being overweight as an adult and significantly shortens life expectancy. It also creates health problems that deprive children of the active, carefree youths that they all deserve...
...when my friend asked for my help, I was more than a little concerned. But I recalled enough of the basic tackle tenets—bend with the knees, ‘club’ the person’s thighs, drive forward with the shoulder and legs—that things went well. Before long, she knocked the wind out of me. Felt like old times...