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...incredible because we just decided to run for fun, and it wasn't like a huge hype like Heps had been the week beforehand," said freshman Brenda Taylor. "None of us was nervous, and we just were going to go run. [Junior] Heather [Hanson] ran a lot faster opening lap--a second faster--than she ran the week before. It was amazing, we just came together as a team...
...other human-rights activists claim that Chinese authorities simply confiscate whatever body parts they need after an execution, rarely asking the condemned prisoners or their families for permission beforehand. Doctors at military hospitals then reportedly transplant the organs into wealthy foreigners willing to pay anywhere from $10,000 to $40,000 for the operation. Some activists fear that Chinese officials may have broadened the kinds of crimes punishable by death in order to line their own pockets. "We estimate there are about 6,000 prisoners executed in China each year," says William Schulz, executive director of Amnesty International, U.S.A...
...supposed to work is something like this," says Blondie. "You're supposed to go to a crack house and make a buy, or have someone make it for you via a 'controlled buy.' To do that, you've got to strip the guy beforehand to make sure there is no other money on him. Then you give him some money and he makes the buy, and you strip him afterward to make sure he has no more money." Do it like that, he says, and the buy and subsequent arrest are legal...
Even trickier is the question of what to do with leftover embryos when the parents are done having children. In the U.S., clinics have parents specify beforehand how they want unused embryos handled. Some donate them to other infertile couples or to scientists for research. Others have them destroyed. But many individuals and institutions--most notably the Roman Catholic Church--consider these embryos to be human beings and their disposal equivalent to murder...
...interested in promoting justice, then we believe that the outdated pedagogy of the English aristocracy is the wrong way to go about it. This way, the student body has limited knowledge of the punishments meted out for particular crimes and cannot therefore comprehend the seriousness of various infractions beforehand. Neither can we have assurance of the fairness or equality of sentencing handed down by the professors and deans of the Ad Board...