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...second guard, too scared to give his name, corroborated: "People started screaming and running away. Others who were hit were calling for help. People were swimming in blood. It was difficult to distinguish between the dead and the living, because everyone was covered in blood." Worshippers raced outside with bodies and jammed them into ambulances without pausing to sort the living from the dead. Ambulance driver Khaled Jaabry discovered only when he reached a local hospital that among the wounded he carried there were his own son and brother...
...That's one of the things that distinguish ourconference from other Model United Nations," hesaid. "We restrict delegates to one resolution foreach committee on each topic for the conference,so they are forced to come up with a comprehensiveresolution...
...persistent statistical surveys purporting to show that criminals tend to run in families and you have the logic behind the Violence Initiative dreamed up a couple of years ago by the Department of Health and Human Services, which included research to discover biological markers that could be used to distinguish violence-prone children as early as age five. Any doubts about the potential for abuse in such a program were erased when Frederick Goodwin, then director of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration, lapsed into a comparison of inner-city youth to murderous oversexed monkeys during a speech...
...largest supermarket chain, is asking suppliers to avoid buying milk from BGH- treated cows, and some companies are trying to find a way to mark their milk products "hormone free." But others, like A&P, are standing pat. Such labels, they point out, are meaningless, because no test can distinguish artificial BGH from the natural variety...
...Jump, by Ellen Stoll Walsh (Harcourt Brace; $13.95). A froggy first book for bouncing preschoolers, the title pretty much sums up the plot, until an unusually balletic frog (blue with spots, to distinguish her from ordinary green-with-spots plodders) teaches her pondmates to dance. Read me the frog book, Daddy...