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...outrage at the mass puppy culling hasn't been so successfully controlled. The topic is now the second-most discussed issue on China's largest online portal, Sina. The Beijing Youth Daily reported on Wednesday that 81% of the 127,780 people who voted on their website opposed the drastic measures. Netizens were particularly irate that even dogs who had been vaccinated against rabies - 4,000 in Mouding alone, according to local statistics - were also killed. For his part, a local Mouding official maintained that the vaccine was not 100% effective, thereby justifying the extreme action...
...spray painting or etching copper pipes for identity purposes. Meanwhile, companies like American Scrap Metal in Dallas check photo IDs and turn away scrap that looks too new. Birmingham's Standard Heating & Air Conditioning Co. and Dalco are even starting to attach alarms to AC units. That may sound drastic, until you realize that in the South air conditioners are a life or death issue. "Without air conditioning, nobody would live in this hell hole," said Points...
...were at much greater risk of dying than those who were simply obese. That finding should spur doctors to be more aggressive about diagnosing and treating those ailments in their heavier patients. It might also help extremely obese women who are considering the risks and benefits of taking such drastic steps as gastric-bypass surgery...
...been able to do it because there is not enough material," says Diego Trigo, a machinist and member of the Sindicato Ferroviario (Railroad Trade Union) and member of Valencia Railways' Safety Committee. "Regarding upkeep and maintenance, there is definitely a considerable lack of prevision." Other views are more drastic: "We warned the company this was going to happen," said Antonio Ayala, a machinist with 25 years of experience guiding trains...
...leaky pipeline” present at Harvard, in which the percentage of female faculty falls from at least one third of tenure-track professors to less than a quarter at the tenure level at the majority of the University’s schools. The differences are especially drastic in certain disciplines; the report includes data showing that in the natural sciences, 25 percent of the faculty on the tenure track in the 2005-2006 academic year was female. But women represent only 8 percent of tenured professors in natural sciences, which Hammonds said is alarming considering the available pool...