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...going to narrate another book on tape? I just finished, actually, Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises. This particular one didn't go as well as the editor hoped, I'm sure, because I was very phlegmy. I had an allergy for three whole days. So the poor editor is going to have to edit out three or four hours of [throat clearing...
...people stopped believing in the system. And into the void stepped young men who took matters into their own well-armed hands. Two gangs in particular--the Dooney Boys and 3 'n' G, both associated with poor neighborhoods in the city--were tearing up the streets in a nauseating, perpetual cycle of revenge...
...reason the international community pays particular attention to Sri Lanka, beyond a simple desire for peace, is the Tigers' world reach. To fund their war in the dirt-poor salt marshes of northern Sri Lanka, the Tigers built a multimillion-dollar fund-raising arm, cajoling and strong-arming the expatriate ethnic Tamil community which settled abroad, particularly in Britain, Australia and Canada. They assembled a fleet of boats, which Sri Lankan intelligence estimates at 22 ships, to smuggle weapons across the Indian Ocean and beyond. And they exported their know-how to the world...
...healthy food and vending machines stocked with unhealthy snacks. The removal of soft drinks from schools is but one step of many towards the goal of raising healthy children. An unfortunate effect of this soft-drink ban will be to eliminate one source of funding for many schools, in particular for extracurricular activities. Serious funding shortfalls in numerous school districts in recent years have caused these schools to rely on exclusive contracts with beverage companies and vending machine revenues for supplementary funding. Hopefully, the revenue from juice and milk sales will help replace the lost money, but some school districts...
...cheating in baseball is rightly being scorned and receiving the attention it deserves, another brand of physician-prescribed cheating is all but ignored today. I’m talking about the cheating that takes place in the academic sphere under the guise of the learning disability—in particular that associated with Adderall.Today, many physicians prescribe Adderall tablets as if they are as harmless as Jolly Ranchers. As a result, an influx of these pills make their way into the hands of enterprising youth, who in turn feed the flourishing black market for this drug on campuses?...