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...athletic and possibly a non-academic entity at this university right now, and aside from a few thousand self-appointed experts (who have friends who know people who are close to distant relatives of the aforementioned party), no one with official stature is at liberty to discuss the exact details of the mess Curry...
Harelips and cleft palates, in one form or another, afflict one in about every 750 newborn children, or 5,000 a year in the U.S. alone. That they develop early in fetal life is clear, but beyond that no one knows the exact cause. It may be a genetic defect, the result of maternal malnutrition or infection, drugs, or a combination of these. Whatever the cause, as fetal tissues grow and form the lips, mouth and palate, something inhibits normal development. The result is a twisted, often grotesque distortion of the nose and a gaping cleft in the upper...
...pierced with colored pins tracing the outbreak of Legionnaires' disease-red pins for deaths, yellow ones for reported illness. At several desks, shirtsleeved workers transferred information onto large sheets of graph paper. At others, workers telephoned the state's more than 300 hospitals, trying to determine the exact number of victims and the exact circumstances surrounding each case...
...character posters than your opponents. The Miltons fail to go into the ideological conflict very deeply, leaving the reader with little sense of the theoretical basis of the namecalling--one knows there was a great deal of commotion, but it seems to have been without reason. They offer an exact, detailed timetable, to be sure--they have researched the subject thoroughly, and each event is chronicled carefully and exactly--but at times it has little more substance than the Western press's descriptions of the Red Guard marching back and forth across China like tireless marionnettes...
...mold of Prestwick where the first Open was held, is an unkempt links-land course whittled by the elements, running along the railway line between Liverpool and Southport. The dunes that straddle the fairways and perpetually tearing winds along with four par fives in the last six holes exact the utmost of poise, resilience and control from the field...