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...HUPD units assisted Boston police units that were helping an intoxicated male who had fallen and split his head open...
...didn't intend to heed the biblical injunction to be fruitful and multiply. It just kind of happened. She was raised a Roman Catholic, but gave little thought to the Good Book when she had her first child at 17. Before long, though, she joined a gang and had fallen into the habit of having babies. She has eight kids and another due any day. "I didn't know a lot about birth control," Campos says. She has since studied her options and decided on a tubal ligation: a common procedure, usually performed after delivery, that permanently prevents pregnancy...
Every good Bible story needs a heavenly visitation. Bethany (Fiorentino) gets hers from the angel Metatron (Alan Rickman), who tells her she is Jesus' distant descendant and it is her destiny to save the world. Two fallen angels, Loki (Matt Damon) and Bartleby (Affleck), have found a doctrinal loophole that will allow them to return to Heaven by walking through a parish door in New Jersey. "It will undo the world," Bethany is told--unless she can stop the renegades from defying...
...While the number of homicides among co-workers in 1998 remained roughly the same as in 1993, the odds of being murdered by a colleague have declined because the work force has grown by 12 million since then. Workplace homicides of all types (whether by workers or strangers) have fallen from 1,074 in 1993 to 709 in 1998--largely because of the drop in violent crimes like convenience-store robberies. And accidental deaths on the job are down as fewer Americans are employed in such dangerous occupations as mining and heavy manufacturing. Says Guy Toscano, a program manager...
What I do remember is the day he unveiled his disdain for the office of the presidency--or rather, for anyone shooting for the office of the Presidency. I don't even remember what led up to his declaration. Whatever it was, his hair had fallen out of the ponytail, his eyes were bulging, and he ended the class by throwing up his arms and muttering, "You've got to be nuts to want to be the President of the United States." I just thought that he was nuts...