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...American population is to learn anything from the whole Bobbitt saga, let it be not that such events make good courtroom drama to watch on television, but that marital abuse occurs far too often in our society, The tragedy here is two-fold: it is the horror of a woman dismembering her husband coupled with the knowledge that she suffered from his physical abuse. Our efforts should be spent not promoting weenie tosses or slicer jokes, but working to ensure that incidents such as either of these do not occur again...
...final price tag? $11 to $12 billion, athree-to-four fold increase from the initialestimate...
...thrust faults were largely overlooked until 1983, when a fierce temblor hit the small central California town of Coalinga. The culprit turned out to be a deeply buried fault (four to 10 miles down) that no one had known about. Its only sign on the surface had been a fold, or buckling, in the earth's crust. Many scientists had thought such folds were harmless, formed by an imperceptibly gradual lifting of the ground. But when Ross Stein, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey, and geologist Robert Yeats of Oregon State University examined the seismic record of fold belts...
Resolution co-sponsor Sharon L. Wing '97predicted that the fair's accomplishments could betwo-fold...
...until elections are held next year, is to consist of 20 members, 10 from the P.L.O. executive committee in Tunis and 10 from the occupied territories. Arafat will be chairman, but the other members have not been selected, and Tunis is filled with job seekers. Arafat also needs to fold in the leaders who have emerged in the territories, people like Faisal Husseini and Hanan Ashrawi...