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...Young people are starting to get involved in the process, more so than in the past,” he said. “I think the candidates are right to court that block...
...kind to the 2 million Filipinos estimated to live in the slums of Manila?labyrinths of squatter huts without electricity or plumbing and filled to their corrugated roofs with pestilence and vermin. Every once in a while, life there gets even crueler. Two Sundays ago, an incident occurred at Block 4, Lot 41, of a Manila shantytown on the grounds of the Bataan Shipyard & Engineering Co., at the home of Zaldy and Racquel Eusebio. Neighbors say the couple was quarrelling and Racquel threw a candle at her husband. The Eusebios say a candle simply fell over. Either way, a conflagration...
...increasing evidence that oxytocin is also involved in deeper bonding. It certainly plays that role in a much studied little rodent called the prairie vole, which is famous for its fidelity to its mate. The critter's brain releases a rush of oxytocin as it bonds with its beloved. Block the chemical, and voles fail to make a connection. Inject more of the hormone, and they fall for each other even faster...
...Pentagon officials threatened to block federal funding for all Harvard schools unless HLS provided the military access to OCS. Three months later, then-HLS Dean Robert C. Clark granted military recruiters an exemption from the nondiscrimination policy...
...WorldCom in the U.S. Parmalat has filed for bankruptcy, and corporate-turnaround expert Enrico Bondi is trying to salvage what he can of the firm, which has 36,000 employees in 30 countries, including 7,300 in North America. Among its holdings is Archway Cookies, now on the block. Along with Tanzi, seven others connected with Parmalat were arrested last week...