Word: blocks
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...effort that would virtually rid the University of an obvious separation between Quad and River residents or black and white, this year is the first try at randomizing upper-class housing. First-years may "block" with up to 16 people of either sex and room with up to the same number of the same sex. While next year students will live in a house that already has an identity--artistic, athletic or whatever--in about three years, the houses theoretically will be completely mixed...
...Kansas, voters in 12 of the 14 counties that have put factory farms on the ballot in recent years have elected to keep them out. In Nebraska, a state ban on corporate farms has sharply slowed their growth. Elsewhere, opponents have used zoning and environmental laws to block plans for new farms. Residents are also seeking to shut plants now in operation. "The smells are horrendous," complains Carla Smalts, an Oklahoma farm wife who has sued to prevent a pig palace from opening near her home. She's also helping to coordinate anti-hog farm movements in five states...
...opponents of the decision plan to block the move by requesting that the court review its decision. The minimum drinking age will technically remain at 21 until the request is considered, according to Rusty Jabour, public information officer for the Louisiana attorney general's office...
...first time, a convoy of food trucks was allowed to pass into the Gaza Strip but Palestinian produce, still not allowed into Israel, rots at the roadblocks. Prime Minister Shimon Peres vowed to keep Palestinian lands sealed off until those responsible for the bombings are in jail. The block imposed February 25 has created food shortages, widespread unemployment and an increasingly angry Palestinian population. Speaking at the summit, Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat condemned Israel's actions, saying they undermine the Palestinian Authority and constitute collective punishment. He added that the anger caused by the sealing could lead...
...classic Diabolique, a man's spouse and lover hatch an elaborate plot to murder him. Now two women may kill the remake of that film, due out in the U.S. this month. Ines Clouzot, the eccentric widow of the film's original director, Henri-Georges Clouzot, is threatening to block the movie's release, claiming she never sold remake rights. "I first learned about the project from reading a newspaper at my hairdresser's," says Clouzot. "I can't let a pirate film come out." Production company Morgan Creek insists it bought all rights, but one of the movie...