Word: secretion
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...body of a high school girl, wrapped in plastic, washes up on the lakeshore near a small town in the Pacific Northwest. An FBI agent teams up with the local sheriff to investigate. The victim, they discover, has been leading a secret life. So, it seems, is nearly everyone else in town...
...components of an atom bomb at half a dozen underground sites around the country. "We are worried, very worried," says an Israeli government minister. "But what is the point in talking about it? If we are going to do something to them, we should naturally keep it secret...
...begin addressing student health concerns, the Dining Services should let us in on their secret recipes. Taking a cue from the Food and Drug Administration, which recently revamped their food labeling guidelines, the Dining Services should institute a comprehensive labeling system of ingredients and method of preparation for entrees and side dishes. No longer would students have to guess whether the fish is fried in butter, vegetable oil or pure grease. No longer would Dining Services patrons be in the dark about exactly what does (and doesn't) go into their ratatouille...
...legal work he was forced to have some contact with the Stasi while defending dissidents. The Stasi stain could spread to other parties, including the SPD. There are charges that as many as 40 of the 400 new deputies may have been in the service of the secret police. If any of these men are forced to resign as a result of their past activities, warns Manfred Stolpe, a top East German churchman, "this would be a terrible blow for our young democracy...
...guns won't solve the barrio's problems, which include domestic violence. Mahon has discovered that wife beating is common. One volunteer mom knows this dark secret all too well. She has survived her own tormented marriage, but a teenage friend has a boyfriend who beats her. "No man that hits you loves you," the volunteer told her. But the advice did not take hold, for her friend, now pregnant, is back with the boyfriend. So the volunteer is determined to get her friend the prenatal care she never got. "I'm going to show her that she doesn...