Word: closers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been getting a lot of foot traffic-people who didn't know who we were before, when we were closer to Harvard Square-and people who have followed us for the last 20 years," Phelps says...
...proportionally much higher in the straight community and more specifically, in the straight minority community; they still argue that it seems reasonable. Would we as a community and nation be so willing to accept a similar regulation against African American straight men and women? Furthermore, a closer look at the American Red Cross questionnaire shows us that there are no questions asking about unprotected sexual encounters. This question, it would seem, is much more relevant to donor screening than questions about same-sex sexual encounters. They are more relevant because the question about same-sex encounters lump all homosexual contact...
...Creek last week tugging at his bright red fisherman's overalls and frowning as he looked down at his catch. With a single toss of his net, Goodall had pulled up 14 perky-looking menhaden, a finger-length bait fish native to Maryland's Eastern Shore. But on closer inspection, all except one of the fish turned out to have ugly red-brown lesions across their silvery skin, where bacteria were literally eating them alive. "It's just horrific," said Goodall, wearing rubber gloves as he sorted through the infected fish. "And it doesn't look like it's slowing...
Forget the dictates of retrochic: the typical '70s family was not the Brady Bunch. It might have been closer to the Hoods and the Carvers, neighboring clans in New Canaan, Conn., who make up one big unhappy family in The Ice Storm. Ben Hood (Kevin Kline) is having a fruitless tryst with Janey Carver (Sigourney Weaver), while Ben's wife Elena (Joan Allen) screams silently, so as not to wake the kids, and Janey's husband Jim (Jamey Sheridan) has so little impact on his brood that when he calls out a cheery, "I'm back," his son Mikey (Elijah...
...drop is mainly evident in the number of men who applied this year, 24, down from 39 last year. But the number of female applicants, 51, was closer to last year's number...