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...consulate general insisted at the informal press conference that the PLO must show its readiness to combat Palestinian violence before Israel withdraws from this city. "We hope the PLO will be more effective in combating terrorism," Yarden said...
...this isn't your favorite Combat Zone S&M shop, although the place certainly could evoke images of such--it's Hubba Hubba, your friendly neighborhood bondage store. An unabashed purveyor of classic, as well as cutting-edge, sexual fantasy gear, Hubba Hubba prides itself in helping people "enrich their social and sexual lives...
...Army officials, the Federal Government exiled more than 100,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans from their homes on the West Coast to internment camps in Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Idaho, Utah and Wyoming. Despite this humiliation, 30,000 Japanese Americans served in uniform, and the all-Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat Team and the 100th Battalion became the most decorated units in U.S. military history...
Haupert, who describes the possibilities of future HIF research as "tempting," hopes that the research will help scientists better understand HIF's effects on the pump and, in turn, to refine existing drugs which combat high blood pressure. For example, one such drug might be comprised of chemicals which block the actions...
...friend of mine and I recently had a disagreement about the way a man hits a woman. You can't punch her, he said (that gesture being reserved for man-to-man combat), nor can you slap her (that's effeminate). Instead, you swat her with the back of your hand. Interesting, I said. It's like hitting a dog with a bit of rolled-up newspaper. I began to get excited, thinking that maybe I had found a thesis topic. When women slap one another, I said delightedly, they are still retaining face-to-face communication. When...