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...honor," he said. "I am ready to challenge the Kenyans." And he did, for four circuits of the five loop, 12.1-km course, running in a leading group of five that included three Kenyans. But at the start of the final loop he caught a spike on a log barrier and stumbled into the man beside him, defending champion Paul Tergat of Kenya. Tergat recovered and accelerated into the lead, but Gebrselassie seemedto lose heart, trotting home fifth, 44 sec. behnd Tergat...
Blacks managing to crack the housing market's color barrier are quickly greeted with white flight. A mass exodus from an area begins once it becomes over 20 percent black-occupied, according to University of Michigan Professor Reginald Farley. "The presence of even small numbers of black residents is disturbing to a significant fraction of whites," he writes...
...conversion is the true struggle: though outwardly courteous, he holds on to his resentment and his hatred to the very end. An undercurrent of tension therefore remains up to the day of Earl's departure, when Aunt T. shares a secret with them both that dissolves the final barrier between them and binds them together for good...
BRING BACK THE SENSE OF SHAME. RESTORE IT TO A place of honor. Give it the nicest office in the brain. It is not only social conservatives who urge it. By now, almost everyone agrees that shame is socially indispensable--the individual's internal police department. Without a barrier of protective shame, the raw sewage of the country's id (pornography, crime, a general violent rottenness and social stupidity) seeps upward, into the ego and superego. A kind of moral imbecility smells up the public places. Life in America begins to look like a long afternoon of shameless, aberration...
What are the chances of contracting the AIDS virus in the ring? Pretty remote, according to most researchers. The skin is an excellent barrier against all kinds of microbes, not just HIV. And even if two opposing boxers suffer cuts at the same time, that doesn't mean transmission is inevitable. Cuts bleed out, making it difficult for the other person's blood to seep in. Furthermore, healthy athletes don't usually have that much HIV in their blood anyway; in the first decade of infection, most of the virus is trapped in the lymph nodes...