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...second common complaint was that some seemingly benign items were confiscated. We do not doubt that tea-kettles or rice cookers might be fatal in the hands of the wrong students. One solution would be to offer a course on fire safety; students who pass could earn the right to operate a hot plate...
...Mohammad is only a burden. He wants to get married again and fears that his fiance's family will not accept a blind child as part of the dowry. He exiles the boy, then retrieves him in a journey that sends them tumbling through violent rapids toward a fatal climax...
...table scraps, toothpaste, glue, hair--even, in a pinch, her young. Such fecundity has evolutionary benefits. The more offspring she produces, the better the chance that one of them will be born resistant to whatever poisons future scientists decide to spray. Today's best roach bait is almost universally fatal, but it's only a matter of time before a bug that's immune scuttles out from underneath someone's fridge...
...first time the Osprey has been in the spotlight. At $44 million apiece - some reports say $60 million - the planes were considered a risky investment by many. Some critics cited shaky safety records as reason enough to sideline the project: Before Saturday night, the craft's record included one fatal and one nonfatal crash during test flights. This record, though, was considered unremarkable; more often it was the program's cost that came under attack...
...demand for workshops like this is one measure of the fallout from the recent wave of highly publicized police shootings and alleged abuses of African Americans and other minorities. Episodes like the fatal shootings of Amadou Diallo and Patrick Dorismond by undercover cops in New York City have raised an outcry against brutal police tactics and racial profiling. But they have also sent a warning into the homes of ordinary families, who are increasingly taking steps to make sure their kids don't do the wrong thing when they come face to face with the police. Says Quartimon: "Today...