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...black with smoke, dramatic reports of uranium-tipped munitions, sandstorms, secret vaccines, and frequent chemical alarms, along with the government's acknowledgement of nerve-agent releases in theater ... Studies have also indicated that Gulf War veterans developed amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) [also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease] at twice the rate of nondeployed veterans, and that those stationed downwind from the Khamisiyah munitions demolitions have died from brain cancer at twice the rate of other Gulf War veterans...
...late one sunny morning, the detainees could be seen inside, a few with their arms hanging through the bars of the shut door. Several immigrants released that day said the center's bathrooms and showers were filthy, and that they were allowed into the courtyard for short spells only twice a week...
...please not another one,” Phillip W.D. Martin said upon learning that the kiosk is likely to close. Martin, a journalist and former Nieman Fellow who has lived in Cambridge since 1979, said he buys papers from Out of Town News twice a week. But some students like Kelly J. Warren ’11, who said she reads her news online, were less concerned about the possibility of the newsstand’s demise. Warren said she only used the newsstand as a landmark for meeting up with clubs or other groups. The kiosk was built...
...just four female computer-science concentrators out of a total of 23.“Our concentrators have been decreasing since the end of the Internet boom,” said Ellen Holloway, the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences academic programs administrator. “There were twice as many five years ago, but also twice as many concentrators,” The gender balance is more skewed in computer science than in other normally male-dominated fields, such as applied mathematics and engineering. While applied mathematics and engineering have seen five and three percent declines in female concentrators...
...Companies don't think twice about using security guards to protect their valuable facilities ashore," Gortney said. "Protecting valuable ships and their crews at sea is no different...