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...There is a loss of confidence in us, and loss of political credit, and there is an economic loss. Industry has complained massively to Bonn about the economic price we are paying." Industrialists were not alone in complaining. Declared historian Golo Mann, 83: "If I were 50, I would arm myself. Trust in the state's protection clearly no longer suffices...
About 500,000 women nationwide use the device, which consists of six capsules inserted under the skin on a woman's upper arm. Inserting the capsules is a simple medical procedure, and they can later be removed to restore fertility. Despite the new option, however, officials say they will continue to recommend abstinence as the best way to avoid pregnancy, and even students who receive the contraceptives will be urged to use condoms to avoid AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases...
From then until halftime, the Crusaders kept Harvard at arm's length...
...POOL SITS SO STILL AND CLEAR THAT it remains utterly invisible unless glimpsed from an angle. Suspended overhead, cream-colored puffs of rock billow within arm's reach, seeming to defy gravity. Welcome to Lake of the Clouds, an enchanted spot of earth that has never seen the sun or felt the morning dew. Carved out of solid rock nearly 1 million years ago, this bewitching chamber lies 300 m (1,000 ft.) below the floor of the New Mexican desert at the lowest point in Carlsbad Cavern...
...laws more easily than the U.S. Nevertheless, the change has come fitfully. Britain was among the first to ban advertising on television, in 1965, and to require health warnings on packs, in 1971. Yet Britons, who loathe anything that smacks of a nanny state, have never progressed beyond polite arm twisting. Neither have the Germans, who provide nonsmoking train cars and smoke-free areas in restaurants but rely more on consensus than legal sanctions...