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...Slakey admits that the St. John's program provides students with a knowledge of Western white male civilization and little else. "There is some truth to it, and this is a choice we've made. We're not trying to hide that," he says...
...damaged the plane's hydraulic controls, Pilot Ampole Ploymekha somehow righted the aircraft and landed safely at Osaka International Airport. Of the 246 passengers and crew, 62 were injured, five of them seriously. Investigators traced the incident to a yakuza (Japanese gangster) who, it is believed, was trying to hide a hand grenade, purchased in Manila as a "souvenir," in the plane's bathroom when the grenade suddenly exploded...
...between attacks, the latent herpes viruses hide out in the nerve centers, or ganglia. There they are so quiescent, expressing only five to ten of their 70 genes, that the immune system fails to detect them. Occasionally, for reasons that are poorly understood but that usually involve stress, fatigue, sexual activity and even sunburn, the immune system can no longer keep the hibernating viruses in check; they awaken, reproduce and head for the skin. "As long as the virus remains latent in the ganglia, it remains shielded," says Bernard Roizman, a leading herpes researcher at the University of Chicago...
...most frightening part of Lou Ford is that he realizes how twisted he is. He cannot control his mind, but he's intelligent enough to hide himself from the public. What sets the book apart from others of its kind, is the contrast between the dialogue and the description of Lou's thoughts. He speaks normally and politely while his mind is racing ahead, repulsed and amused by the stupidity and petty concerns of the people around...
...passed last year in San Fransisco prohibits random urine-testing except when an employer has reasonable suspicion that a specific individual is a substance abuser who also threatens the safety of his co-workers. That's a fair law, because its writers understood that those who have nothing to hide because they have nothing to fear lack also one other thing. Even if they're candidates for public office, they also have nothing to prove...