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Proponents of the bill say that most pound animals are pets, and that the lab life is too cruel Scientists respond that most of these animals are strays, and that the pound death they face--gassing--is much crueler than vivisection...
...weeks later Watson came back to win his first professional golf tournament, the Western Open. "My goal," he baldly announced after that one victory, "is to be the best golfer in the world." The following spring at Medinah, Ill., Watson's next Open experience was even crueler-after he established a 36-hole record for an Open, his game collapsed again-and something close to a phobia took hold...
...month. Last week's first rebuff came when foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg reluctantly agreed to extend those sanctions for only seven more days instead of the additional month the British had sought. Italy and Ireland did not go along with even that limited measure. But a crueler blow fell the next day in Brussels, where Community agriculture ministers voted 7 to 1 (with Denmark and Greece abstaining) to override a British veto and push through a Community-wide farm price increase of 10.7%. In doing so, the member nations broke a 16-year tradition, known as the Luxembourg...
...Playboy Foundation and by secondary components of the multi-billion-dollar marijuana industry such as paraphernalia manufacturers and High Times Magazine, Stroup was able to put together model decriminalization legislation sponsor objective scientific studies and provide pro bono legal aid to the victims of some of the crueler dope laws in the United States, victims like Frank Demolli, who, as an 18-year-old, was sentenced to 25 years in a Texas prison for dealing...
...argument bruises old myths. In the crueler interpretation of the American idea, anyone who failed was more or less meant to fail. That logic may, more than any other single factor, explain the tragedy of race in America...