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...fashioned, liberal ideology,” said Thernstrom, asserting that the logic behind Orfield’s assumption about integration’s potential to improve minority education assumes that blacks and Hispanics must be able to model their white peers in order to have a “proper education...
...aback that we even popped the question. "It is simply not allowed," he ruled. Even the spokeswoman for Virgin Atlantic?whose owner, Richard Branson, once intimated that he would like to introduce double beds on his planes?said, "It's illegal and violators could be handed over to the proper authorities...
MICK JAGGER and JERRY HALL'S 1990 Hindu wedding ceremony lacked the proper paperwork--a convenient out when the pair lacked marital satisfaction nine years later...
Because men are often outnumbered in senior homes, they may be subjected to a lot of attention. Nancy, 83, a very proper widow who had just arrived at an upstate New York senior residence, recalls casually accepting a ride one fall afternoon from a fellow resident, a lively gent who wanted to show her the countryside. The next evening at cocktail hour, Nancy was taken aside and told in no uncertain terms by another widow that the man was already taken. "I thought I was back in a high school locker room," recalls Nancy, astonished by the woman's aggressiveness...
Some claims for the health benefits of the amino acid arginine sound as if they belong in late-night infomercials (more on that later), but all of them stress one physiological fact that is beyond dispute: proper blood flow is critical to the human body. Sadly, poor circulation in the feet of diabetics leads to 87,000 amputations each year. Little has been available in the way of preventive care beyond special socks and shoes...