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Rather than enacting a total ban, the administration should adopt a more moderate safety policy by increasing the penalties for improper use. Students who build fires without screens or leave the flu closed could face probation or other rebuke from the administrative board. Individual students (and suites) could be put on a ban list, following close calls or smoke alarms. In this way, the policy would encourage more responsible...
Still, she said HUDS has no plans to adopt a website like the one Blackburn is pushing, which evaluates the overall diet instead of merely giving nutrition facts...
They want to adopt babies, so six North American women wait out the residency requirements imposed on them by an unnamed South American country. They eat. They shop. They very tentatively explore the alien culture they impatiently inhabit. Over the course of a highly compressed 95 minutes we get a sense of the maternally frustrated lives they have lived before arriving at the Casa de los Babys...
...potential future Prime Minister; after hours of surgery to repair wounds suffered when an unidentified man stabbed the mother of two as she was shopping in a department store; in Stockholm. The motivation for the assault is unknown, but it occurred days before a referendum on whether to adopt the euro, an expensive, controversial proposal Lindh had publicly championed...
...China didn't adopt this go-it-alone approach by choice. It was left out of the 16-nation International Space Station project, which includes space neophytes such as Belgium. China's once lucrative satellite-launch industry has been devastated by U.S. sanctions preventing the country from launching commercial satellites that use American components. And last year, the U.S. refused to grant visas to some Chinese scientists invited to participate in the World Space Congress in Houston, even though several were slated to present papers there. Physicist Sun Huixian was so angry about the American cold shoulder that he ordered...