Word: armfuls
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Bush’s professions that he is unconvinced by the evidence are themselves entirely unconvincing. A favorite poison of mystery writers and the Medici, arsenic is also a known carcinogen. According to one study completed in 1999 by the National Research Council, an arm of the National Academy of Sciences, the current maximum arsenic level allowed by law results in a 1-in-1,000 risk to men of developing lung or bladder cancer. Though no recent studies have been conducted on Americans, the evidence from international reports is compelling, and the researchers urged the EPA to reduce...
...must make students aware of their study abroad options earlier in their Harvard careers. Although OCS literature encourages students to start thinking about study abroad during their freshman year, many first-years do not know that OCS, or this literature, exists. Information sessions geared specifically for first-years would arm students with the knowledge that they need to plan ahead and make study abroad a reality...
Rugby's Bum Rap FOUL PLAY. Finally, and how long we've waited, proof arrives that those friendly pats on the butt between athletes can get completely out of hand. Australian rugby star John Hopoate got arm deep in trouble last week for conduct unbecoming anywhere outside a proctologist's office. Three fellow players complained that Hopoate, during matches, stuck his finger up their backsides. "At first I was very surprised," said accuser Wendell Sailor, who claimed he was "jabbed" by Hopoate last month. "He just stood there and smiled at me." The authorities barred Hopoate from competing...
...news is about Jessica, our first grandchild (have a cigar; no, don't), who was born on March 1, just under 7 lbs. and 19 in. big. I hold her on the couch as she sleeps swaddled--part baby, part blanket--in the crook of my arm. Her harpist's fingers twitch in independent dreams. The threads of blue veins above her barely visible eyebrows run like rivers on a map. It comes back to you, holding babies--the surprisingly substantial weight...
HIRED. BOBBY KNIGHT, 60, preternaturally boorish and abusive basketball coach who was dismissed from Indiana University last September, after 29 years of service, for grabbing a student by the arm and violating a zero-tolerance behavior policy; as new head coach at Texas Tech, despite a faculty-written petition objecting to his appointment; in Lubbock, Texas...