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...didn't used to be this way. Once, every prank could be traced to one pair of doors: one a dank red and the other proudly sporting purple and gold. The Crimson and Lampoon waged war on each other with fiery zeal. Thefts, kidnappings and public embarrassment were their tools in a bloody, century-old feud. The raw hate hovering in the atmosphere between Bow and Plympton streets made dogs howl and plants wither...
...separated from her husband, and does not trust her neighbors. Inside, she shows us her shabby living room, the dim bedroom she shares with her son, a rudimentary bathroom and a dank kitchen equipped with a leaky sink, hot plate and ancient refrigerator. Its contents: beans, rice and a frozen three-month-old piece of chicken that she is saving for two-year-old Rolando. "The state gives you six pounds of rice a month, but we eat that in three ; days," she says. When her rations ran out the week before, she sold her grandmother's 10-year...
...August," he wrote, "came in a dutch man of warre that sold us twenty Negars." In Virginia alone, the slave population grew from about 2,000 in 1670 to 150,000 on the eve of the American Revolution. Most of the slaves sailed from West Africa, chained together in dank, fetid holds for transatlantic journeys that often lasted three months or more. The conditions were unspeakable, the mortality rate horrifying: on some ships more than half the slaves died during the passage...
...your water safe? The company or municipal authority that supplies it is required by federal law to give you an analysis and disclose any violation of health standards. But even if you can trust the company, the report won't tell you what happens to the water in the dank recesses of your own plumbing system. The only way to know precisely what's coming out of your tap is to have your water tested. The EPA's Safe Drinking-Water Hotline (800-426-4791) offers names of testing laboratories in individual states. The hot line can also answer technical...
...this year some, including Sporting News magazine, have predicted that Coach Ray Tellier and his Lions are ready to emerge from the dark and dank cellar of the Ivy League and trade a horrific season for a merely mediocre...