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...Officers were sent to the Laboratory for Human Reproduction and Reproductive Biology Building to investigate a report of people drawing chalk lines in an alley. Officers spoke with the parties, who were doing an art project...
...those of us who cannot recall what life was like before Roe v. Wade, “choice” for women too often meant the “choice” between self-mutilation with a coat hanger, a dark alley “butcher” or a long trip to one of the few sympathetic physicians that secretly provided medically safe abortions. While today women could not imagine a world without contraception and abortion as viable options, this was the world women faced before...
...heavy chemical weapons gear, just in case. But a captain in Iraq's Special Security Organization, the agency that was responsible for, among other things, the security of weapons sites, says no such arms were available. "Trust me," he says, his eyes narrowed, as he sits in a back-alley teahouse in Tikrit, "if we had them, we would have used them, especially in the battle for the airport. We wanted them but didn't have...
...Netherlands. The two-winged structure sits on an artificial lake created on land reclaimed from the sea. Embracing this quirky history, the roof of each wing is covered in a film of water so that as the wings dip toward each other visitors pass through a water alley formed by the runoff from the roof running down glass walls. That is, they walk through water--on dry land that was once underwater--to an artificial lake. The little pavilion doesn't change (unless you count the play of light through the liquid on the glass), but it acknowledges change...
...with his body. Bound by loyalty, Hassan chooses the kite. Amir stumbles upon the scene and watches mutely, too cowardly to stop them raping his best friend. "Looking back now," he muses from Golden Gate Park, "I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last 26 years...