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...Texas Tech, who studied the aftereffects of a 1970 tornado in Lubbock, found that youngsters, even those as old as ten, regressed into clinging and infantile behavior and that some residual effects were felt in adolescence. Other high-risk groups: single parents, especially women, who usually carry the brunt of their family's emotional needs; and the poor, who are often already stressed to the limit...
...brunt of the ban will fall on the Far East. Hong Kong's traders have a 700-ton ivory stockpile that they will be unable to sell anywhere except within that colony. Japan, which has consumed about 40% of all ivory in recent years, abstained from the vote at Lausanne. Japanese officials say they intend to honor the prohibition...
...Loyal Servant: Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54 takes his loyalty to Harvard seriously. Very seriously. So while University administrators nationwide have complained that a massive federal antitrust probe is costing them thousands of dollars in legal fees, Steiner said he would gladly bear the brunt of that cost himself. "The legal costs come out of my budget, so my family won't be eating for a while," Steiner said with a laugh. "But that's all right. Anything for Harvard...
...always, the lowest class will bear the brunt of the inequity. Those oppressed peasants, the students, will be left without the right or ability to decide their own futures...
From Guadeloupe to Montserrat to St. Croix and Puerto Rico, one of the fiercest storms of the decade leaves a path of destruction. Charleston bears the brunt of the hurricane in the U.S. before it turns inland and diminishes. -- A ruling on embryos in Tennessee may complicate the debate over abortion...