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...want to nip this in the bud," Williams said, adding that he was concerned that the distribution of the flyers might inspire more incidents of racial harassment on the Ann Arbor campus...
...enforcement of the new policy has thus far been very successful, according to Bud Beatty, assistant director of residential life. "We've been very lucky because the organizations have tried very hard to take control of their social events," he said...
Relieved of this worry, Stankard began producing a profusion of wild-flower paperweights: painted Trillium, black-eyed Susan, loosestrife, lady's slipper and prickly pear cactus. Sometimes they were shown in their entire life cycle: bud, blossom and seedpod on a single stem. Sometimes their root systems were shown beneath the earth on the underside of the crystal globe. Even as a child, he had a passion for wild flowers. Now, as a working artist, he improved his knowledge of their shape and form by studying flowers he found growing behind his house or on long walks in New Jersey...
Former Congressman Clarence "Bud" Brown (R--Ohio), leader of a group studying the influence of technology in the world economy, described the uncanny parallels between his political career and that of his father...
Parents of anencephalics have been in the forefront of the campaign to make use of their infants' organs, as a way of making their brief, tragic lives meaningful. Such babies are often born with no skin or skull above their eyes. They have only an exposed bud of a brain and a brain stem that keeps their heart and lungs working erratically. Under current state laws, death occurs when all brain activity has ceased. Anencephalic infants are technically alive until their brain stem stops functioning. By then, however, the increasingly insufficient oxygen supply has ruined any potentially useful organs...