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More than half a million U.S. women are unable to bear children because their Fallopian tubes have been blocked or damaged, usually by sexually transmitted infections. Yet the risk of tubal infertility can easily be reduced. How? By the use of so-called barrier contraceptives -- diaphragms, cervical caps and condoms -- which bar the passage of sperm into the uterus...
Securitization has already done that, largely in the investment houses' favor. Glass-Steagall has not proved to be much of a barrier for investment firms that wish to engage in banking activity, even if it has worked well the other way around. Over the past two decades, firms like Merrill Lynch (assets: $53 billion) and American Express (assets: $99 billion) have eaten deeply into traditional commercial-banking turf, first through near banking activities like interest-bearing money-market accounts, then through home-equity loans...
SASC Leader: A real blockade is when real people situate themselves in such a way as to deter movement across a barrier. Our blockade didn't prevent Kent-Brown from leaving. He could have left by the upper doors, or he could have navigated around the protesters at the lower doors. The protesters at the lower doors weren't there to prevent the vice-consul from leaving by those exits. They were there only to make a point...
...Undergraduate Council will not remove the plexiglass that encircles the floor of the Bright Hockey Center before the Elvis Costello concert despite complaints that the four-ft. high barrier will distort the sound in the front rows, council members and University officials said this week...
OBLIVIOUS TO the world, I walked into the store with my walkman headphones on. I passed through some sort of metal detector I had been accustomed to seeing only in airports. Unlike the airport checkpoints, this barrier did not have a customs official with a gun standing by, nor was there a sign that said "inappropriate comments about bombs and explosives may result in arrest." (By the way, what is an appropriate comment about bombs or explosives...