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...were five white, liberal girls from the geographical areas most represented at Harvard—California, New York, New Jersey and D.C. Despite this lack of regional, political or racial uniqueness, my roommates and I had profound differences in lifestyle—so much so that, midway through first semester, it became necessary for the Freshman Dean’s Office (FDO) to intervene and for one of us to move across campus...
...hardcover book. The FBI, U.S. Customs and Immigration and the Department of Homeland Security have already begun using the gadget to detect and identify chemical hazards, but it hasn't yet been implemented in airports. The TSA recently deployed two $160,000 explosives detection machines for Chicago's Midway International Airport, but those machines, known as puffers, aren't made to identify sealed liquids. The agency has yet to put into place FirstDefender devices, which cost about $30,000, though it now confirms that it is testing the FirstDefender. "Ports of entry need technology to identify dangerous substances within containers...
...happening behind that impenetrable cordon of destruction reached Beirut mainly as rumors. Even reaching the area just north of the Litani was fraught with hazard. Leaflets dropped on Beirut by Israeli aircraft on Monday morning warned Lebanese to avoid traveling along the roads north of Sidon, the seaport midway between Beirut and Tyre. That necessitated an arduous and time-consuming detour high up in the cloud-smothered Chouf mountains, complicated Monday by the choking line of northbound vehicles carrying tens of thousands of refugees fleeing the violence further south...
...York State offers an innovative pilot program that allows individuals with developmental disabilities to design their own support plan, subject to state approval. The endlessly devoted Desais and Bergerons pressed for a plan that would allow the newlyweds to live together in their own apartment, located midway between the two family homes, and receive part-time aid with tasks like cooking. "They don't need baby sitting every hour," explains Sindoor. "What they need is money management and transportation" to part-time jobs, volunteer work, exercise classes and other activities. The "self-determination" program requires enormous initiative and hard work...
...ping and rattle of the rides and games reached all the way to the parking lot as Greg Lynch pushed Jessi's wheelchair toward the glow of the midway, over ruts that jostled her legs (which had been repaired with a metal rod and screws), her pieced-together arm and her back, which had been realigned with metal plates...