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...built to hold. At the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in Westchester County, N.Y., many inmates are double bunked; a visitor can easily see beds sticking up over the half walls that separate individual cubicles. With two lockers and two small metal closets filling up the narrow confines of each space, prisoners barely have room to turn around...
...public relations executive at Sun Oil, had become a champion of the downtrodden and disparaged. "I would bring a sensitivity to the needs of different kinds of people, including minorities, women, the incarcerated, the poor and other marginalized groups," said the Philadelphia native shortly before her narrow victory in an acrimonious election as assistant bishop. Since her precedent-shattering achievement, however, the 60-year-old Harris has managed to quiet even her harshest detractors. Refusing to become an "international Anglican gadfly," she says her priority is to carry out her Boston-area pastoral and sacramental duties. Amen...
...cultivate their interests. As a result, there is a growing perception gap between the sexes. A much discussed phenomenon known as Narita divorce illustrates the problem: upon arriving back home at Tokyo's Narita Airport, fresh from their honeymoons, many worldly young women, shocked to have discovered the narrow-mindedness and dependency of their new bridegrooms, promptly dump them...
...This campaign is about good government," says DeJong. "I think Billy Bulger represents bad government. He does not allow television cameras in the chambers of the state Senate. He will not debate me, and will not even shake my hand. He is arrogant and narrow minded, not someone who respects democracy...
...other report issued last week focuses attention on the Fallopian tubes, the narrow passages that carry eggs from the ovaries to the uterus. Women whose tubes are clogged with scar tissue or other obstructions cannot conceive by natural means because their eggs have no way of getting to the womb. In the past, such women had to undergo surgery to have their tubes cleared. Now the problem can be overcome in a doctor's office, according to an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association. With a tiny balloon similar to those used to clear blocked arteries, scientists...