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...spite of the several animal research bills pending before Congress, including the well-supported Research Modernization Act, Harvard researchers seem most concerned by activity at the state level to restrict the use of pound animals. "Most of the concern seems to be with dogs and particularly so-called pound animals," said Dr. A. Clifford Barger, Pfeiffer Professor of Physiology...
...state Pound Seizure Law allows medical research institutions to obtain pound animals for use in experimentation. Under provisions of the law, the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) retains inspection rights of all animal research...
...will open, except in eight eastern counties where the geese seem to be carrying particularly high levels of endrin. But pregnant women and nursing mothers all over the state were enjoined not to eat waterfowl, and everyone else was told to down no more than one duck or a pound of goose a week-or, at most, six ducks a year. As for preparation: pour off the meat drippings, discard the skin, and don't stuff the duck...
...collapse, most Poles must turn to alternate sources for food and other scarce items. Those with friends or relatives abroad may get some of what they need via parcel post. Others resort to barter: a mechanic might trade two quarts of motor oil to a salesgirl for a pound of coffee; in Silesia, the miners are reportedly trading coal to farmers for meat. For exorbitant prices, or hard Western currency, almost anything can be gotten on the black market. Sample prices: blue jeans, $180; one pint of vodka...
...worst thing is not the irrelevant questions," says one survivor of voir dire, "but the fact that you're locked into a dingy room with 30 other would-be jurors and two or more lawyers, who then proceed to pound each of you with the same questions. This can take a half-hour or more for each juror, and then you have to hear it all over and over again. After a day or so, you'll grab at anything...