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...girl confides that she will spend the weekend with her biology professor; it is, alas, the price she must pay for a passing grade in biology. Same old soap opera, same old dilemma, and as with all such troubles, matters will eventually straighten out and soon worse crises will occur...
Traditional risk assessment weighs the magnitude of the danger against the probability it will occur. The chance of dying from a cyanide-laced piece of fruit was infinitesimally small compared to the possibility of being run over by the proverbial bus on the way to the supermarket. But rather than issue a warning to examine fruit carefully, the Food and Drug Administration impounded ! 2 million crates of fruit at airports and docks in Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Miami -- a still life of waste -- and advised consumers not to eat any Chilean fruit, which includes most of the peaches, blueberries, blackberries...
...crew, "because I need windows," and because he rarely listens to music, which is in heavy supply aboard the other R.E.M. vehicles. He keeps a bottle of Evian water mixed with herbal powder close at hand and claims he can, as some animals do, anticipate earthquakes days before they occur. His house in Athens has no TV and no phone. Says drummer Berry: "The three of us are just as average as you can get, but Michael is obviously an unusual person. He is different. I don't know if he has hot water in his house even...
...conversion of the Quad from wall flower to blushing beauty did not occur overnight nor without cost. In fact, the transformation of the beast required a physical facelift worth $32.5 million--concrete facial included...
Most shocking for those who would not know better is the complete lack of surprise in the Black community that such harassment, if true, did occur. Black Harvard and MIT students have complained for years of being stopped on Mass. Ave. by police while simply walking down a sidewalk...