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...elbows in this convoluted case, bristle at conspiracy theorists' continued accusations that the NTSB and FAA are covering up the true cause of the crash. Early speculation that terrorist action brought the plane down was quickly discounted, but several passengers' family members and a few enthusiastic intrigue-seekers have clung to the idea that Boeing is hiding the truth about the 747's safety records...
...late 19th century, when family farms needed kids to till the fields in the summer. There have been periodic campaigns to lengthen the U.S. school year to match those of other nations (Israeli children attend class 215 days, Korean kids more than 220). But the U.S. has clung fast to 180 days of class time--and the full summer for lemonade stands and first kisses. But the sacred three-month hiatus may do more harm than good. Research shows that all children lose academic ground over the summer, scoring an average of one month lower on standardized exams than they...
...life are free, or as the Beatles put it, money can't buy me love. Then I realized that 20 years after John Lennon's death, it's Michael Jackson who owns the lion's share of Beatles memorabilia (not to mention the Elephant Man's skeleton). Still, I clung to the belief that not everything in America is for sale...
...here that seems to have been ignored: Al Gore was right. He insisted on keeping the ultimate choice available to a woman, and refused to consider an alternative that would effectively render the fetus a ward of the state even against the will of the mother. The vice president clung to a fundamental tenet of the pro-choice movement: Until a woman gives birth, the burgeoning existence inside her must belong absolutely to her. No prison guard, and certainly no legislator, should be able to take away that autonomy...
...there was Radcliffe. For 25 years, Harvard's sister college had stood next door, occupying an incongruous and, to some, incomprehensible position as the de jure alma mater of Harvard's female undergraduates. It offered no classes and employed no faculty, but clung to its aging alumni body and charged Harvard rent on the use of Byerly Hall for its admissions office, presumably in order to pay the salaries of its burgeoning administrative ranks...