Word: arizonas
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Harvard (now 4-1 overall, 1-0 Ivy League) defeated the University of Kansas Friday by a 86-54 margin, but fell Saturday in the tourney semifinal to the University of Arizona, 76-64. In yesterday's third-place meet, the Crimson soundly defeated Southern Methodist by a score...
From Southern California to Texas, towering saguaros on front lawns are the hottest thing since plastic pink flamingos. The demand has encouraged an illicit industry: cactus rustling. Many of the specimens bought by homeowners and collectors have been stolen from Government-owned wilderness lands. In Arizona last year more than 200 thieves were fined or given warnings for digging up a variety of state-protected species, most of which have shallow roots. Conservationists are now lobbying for stricter state and federal laws to stop poachers, who are lured by substantial profits. Saguaros, which can take more than 100 years...
...talks," said State Department Spokesman Charles Redman. Fitzwater was blunter. "Anytime you start seeing stories of independent plans," he said, "you have to start being a little nervous." Others in Washington charged that Wright's horse trading usurped Reagan's foreign policy authority. Said Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona, a supporter of contra aid: "I think it's at best unseemly and at worst unconstitutional...
Some couples solve the problem by living and working apart and seeing each other on weekends. About 700,000 couples in the U.S. have such commuter marriages, says Fairlee Winfield, a professor of business at Northern Arizona % University. Despite the separations, some of which last ten years and longer, infidelity is apparently rare. Of 297 couples she surveyed, only 8% had affairs while apart; most polls put the national norm for adultery at about 26%. "The fact that they're willing to live with the arrangement indicates a high level of commitment to the marriage in the first place," explains...
...researchers, Microbiologist Memory Elvin-Lewis of Washington University in St. Louis and Marlys Witte, a professor of surgery at the University of Arizona in Tucson, told of a black teenager who showed up at St. Louis City Hospital in 1968 with chronic genital swelling. The youngster, then 15, admitted that he was sexually active; laboratory tests disclosed that he had a severe case of chlamydia, a common but curable venereal disease. Doctors prescribed several antibiotics and put him on a low-salt diet. Nothing worked. His muscles wasted away, and his lungs filled with fluid. Robert R. died...