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...have been turning to all sorts of bizarre alternatives, including eucalyptus and neem oils and chrysanthemum-flower extract, solutions that have been recommended on the Internet. Others have taken to smearing their children's heads with mayonnaise, petroleum jelly or Crisco, then having the kids sleep in a shower cap. In July a 13-year-old girl in Lorimor, Iowa, died after her mother doused her head in gasoline and a pilot light on the family's hot-water heater ignited the fumes. Last spring, a six-year-old Oklahoma girl stopped breathing temporarily after her mother's boyfriend soaked...
Perhaps--unless that historian is Ed Ball. His clan stretches back to Englishman Elias ("Red Cap") Ball, who came to Carolina in 1698 for his inheritance of 740 acres and 25 slaves. His descendants would ultimately rule 25 plantations and 4,000 slaves. As a child, Ed Ball heard tales of war heroes and beautiful plantations; slaves were rarely mentioned. Ball's father once quipped about matters not to be discussed: "Religion, sex, death, money--and the Negroes." When slavery did come up, two assertions were made as God's truth: We were good to our Negroes. There...
Committee members approved of the cap because they said it would thoughtfully at how their programs could be synthesized...
...cap would keep the rigor of joint concentrations on par with that of other concentrations, Pearson Professor of Modern mathematics and Mathematical Logic Warren DE. Goldfarb '69 said...
...book building's hours should be extended still later, to midnight on Friday and Saturday at the least, like the Harvard Book Store. Students could then meet for coffee at the cafe or have time to browse after a movie or play. More comfortable seating and later hours would cap off the improvements, making the renovated store the truly "collegiate Coop" it has aspired to become...