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...Friday afternoon at Key's alma mater, psychology student Michael Hempseed is rushing off to his part-time supermarket job, while elsewhere on campus a large portion of the student body has begun a raucous, migratory end-of-semester party. The days of universities as hotbeds of political dissent are over - in New Zealand, at least. Generally speaking, the main concerns of today's students are drinking and study - in that order, says Hempseed: "It feels like we're missing out on something." The 23-year-old will be voting Labour for two reasons. One, the economy will need special...
...obvious realization: something was terribly, terribly wrong with this picture.Perhaps it was the heavy, unwieldy sign that concealed more than half of my body, or the fact that I was teetering on a curb and frantically waving at oncoming traffic. Perhaps it was the fact that my arms had begun to feel like two throbbing, slightly numb vestigial appendages, or that I was beginning to see spots in the heat. Mostly, it was one persistent little number that had been pulsing in my head for the past 240 excruciating minutes:$4.25.That, minus taxes, was how much I was being paid...
...world's opium - and the world market. That's enough to supply all the world's heroin addicts for nearly two years. The whereabouts of the missing opium is a mystery so far, but international drug- and law-enforcement agencies say they believe the Taliban has begun to stockpile large quantities of the drug, which is worth about $464,000 per ton once it is exported from Afghanistan. When British forces recently occupied Musikalia in Helmand province, they uncovered a stockpile of 45 tons of opium. But that's a tiny fraction of what has disappeared. "Where...
...beds to serve psychiatric inpatients and substance abuse recovery services, according to Keefe. The Alliance had already been facing financial woes. It cut discretionary spending in February and is in the process of laying off 9 percent of its workforce, or approximately 300 people. Service cuts had also begun even before last week’s announcement; earlier this month, CHA said it would close the Oliver Farnum Senior Health Center in December, and in the spring CHA reduced the number of its sites that provide midwifery services. “What do you say about a public health entity...
...whole trip was a hoax, Zafran said. According to Zafran, Gall only had the names, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses of the students who had registered for the trip. Obama headquarters in each of the cities had already arranged housing for the volunteers, and the Dems had begun working on arranging local transportation. “It’s consumed my life for the last two weeks, and I can’t get that time back, so I understand the sad and disappointed feelings,” Zafran said. Harvard students who had signed up to travel...