Word: forbidden
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...factories pay their workers pennies per hour to work shifts of 12 hours or more at a time, under the most dehumanizing conditions. Their health and safety are jeopardized in various ways, ranging from being denied bathroom breaks to having to work with dangerous tools and chemicals. Unionizing is forbidden. Over 90 percent of the workers are women, who are often subjected to sexual harassment or abuse. Clearly, these conditions are appalling, and cannot be justified by any means...
...According to local lore, the giant snake?which was forbidden from entering the monkhood by the Lord Buddha because it wasn't human?has roamed a subterranean universe known as the Muang Badan for thousands of years, slithering through a vast network of caves and tunnels. The main thoroughfare?the Naga superhighway, if you like?is said to run from Kam Chanode in Udon Thani province to Wat Paa Ahong, a temple on the riverbank more than 100 kilometers away in neighboring Nong Khai. Pilgrims, I was told, visit Kam Chanode to anoint themselves with water from the Naga...
...sleep with my students.” Anthony Varilly ’03, a CA for Math 113, got the same spiel. “There is very little CA training in the math department. But it was made very clear to us that relationships with students are strictly forbidden,” he says. Last semester Varilly was assigned to CA his roommate. He asked Preceptor in Mathematics John D. Boller, who is in charge of upper-level CAs, if this was kosher. Boller’s only response: “Are you dating your roommate...
...Americans surveyed had tried pot; the new TIME/CNN poll puts the figure at 47%. And though pot use among teens is down from its '70s highs, parents sneaking joints when their kids are asleep is a fresh phenomenon. But the polls show that Americans still cling to pot's forbidden status, which is why the pro-pot people are working so hard. "You would think you would get a change, but you're not going to," says Charles Whitebread, a law professor at the University of Southern California who has written extensively on marijuana law. "Even though it did nothing...
...being impaneled. Guber revealed that while he was head of the studio, his company made a film with Ryder, but after promising he could be objective, he was selected to serve. Guber, who heads Mandalay Entertainment, will have to lay off Daily Variety for a while. The judge has forbidden jurors to read about the case while the trial is under...