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...think it takes them a whole lot longer to get invested in a relationship. So therefore, when they finally realize this isn't the one, we are so invested in it by that point, and they're ready to move on and find the one that's the right fit for them...
...there times when you have to abuse animals in order to fit in with the people you're working with? Constantly. There are certain organizations that have guidelines investigators have to follow. But for me, if a supervisor tells me to do something, I'm trying to show that facility has a protocol that they follow that may or may not be against the law. As an undercover investigator, you don't alter anything or plant anything. You show things exactly as they are. (Read a Q&A with the head of the Humane Society about factory farming...
When you've been strong and fit your whole life, it can be easy to discount your body's first whispers of sickness as merely the side effects of daily living. Looking back over the past three years, my older brother Patrick now understands the meaning of his increasingly frequent bouts of fatigue, his fluctuating appetite and the fact that his blood pressure had crept up to 150/90. But Pat had always put off going to the doctor until he had to. Having bought health insurance that carried a $2,500 deductible, he knew he would have...
...Chief Justice Ronald George, the Republican justice who authored last year's opinion, appeared to agree that the barrier to constitutional amendments is far too low in California, noting that the Golden State has seen fit to amend its constitution no fewer than 500 times since 1911, while the U.S. Constitution has survived more than 200 years with just 27 amendments. But like Kennard, who had also voted with the majority to establish the right to gay marriage last year, George seemed to suggest Thursday that until the people of California raise the barrier for amendments, the court has little...
...part of the Cuban "Taliban.") His successor, Bruno Rodriguez, who had been Perez Roque's No. 2, is by contrast a more bookish foreign service veteran, a former journalist who was Cuba's ambassador to the United Nations from 1995 to 2003. As such, he may be a better fit as Foreign Minister as Raúl tries to engage the Obama Administration - and vice versa. The younger Castro has expressed a desire for improved ties with the U.S. and is seeking an end to Washington's 47-year-old trade embargo against communist Cuba. (See how salsa struggles...