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Meanwhile, she and Steve were growing distant. They had always been a bit oddly paired: she the literary romantic, he the frat boy at Arizona State, where they met in the early '80s. She got pregnant not long after meeting him, and she married like the good Catholic she has always tried to be. But by the early '90s, it was clear to friends that even their four children weren't going to hold Steve and Mary Letourneau together. Expenses outpaced salaries--Steve loads cargo for Alaska Airlines--and creditors were phoning. They filed for Chapter 13 bankruptcy...
Those obscure, distant bureaucrats had developed a set of principles that struck at the heart of the environmental movement. According to the GATT (and later the WTO), free trade meant that a country's laws might favor one kind of product over another but should generally not discriminate between two identical products just because they were made differently. The tuna exported by Mexico wasn't any different from the tuna caught by other countries: the fact that more dolphins died in the process was simply a different way of making the same product. For environmentalists, the threat was clear...
...month, and it gives you the option of transferring the money from wherever you want: mutual fund, money market, even an old-fashioned checking account. Your daughter can store the money any way she wants--on her laptop, on a debit card, even (in the not too distant future) on a chip implanted under her skin. And, perhaps best of all, you can program the money to be spent only in specific ways. You might instruct some of the digits to go for books, some for food and some for movies. Unless you pass along a few digits that...
...firm is Khentov's belief in hisneighborhood, he has already decided to returnthere post-graduation. Although marriage andfamily still seem distant possibilities, Khentovalso says he is pretty sure he'll be calling theLower East side home for a long time to come...
Indeed, this Husky team looked quite different from the one the Crimson needed a ninth-inning rally to topple 9-8 in Florida, and even more distant from last year's 33-19 squad that made the NCAA round...