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...adopted the stories that have been shared by my parents and siblings over the phone as my own memories. Once, at a precious 14 months, Mariam was in the living room when she disappeared from view. After some franctic searching, my sister found her hiding in a corner of the dining room struggling to poop into her diaper. The polite yet constipated baby didn’t want to do the deed in front of the family. Adorable, non? The shitting business makes for good story-telling. When they were getting potty trained last year, Mariam would accompany Adam...

Author: By May Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Growing Pains | 11/8/2006 | See Source »

There a technician identified the strands as either Ebola Zaire or something very close to it. Even more alarming, an incident at the Reston building seemed to confirm that this virus, unlike the African one, could be transmitted through the air. Franctic phone calls were made to Virginia health authorities and to the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. The Reston building was, in Army parlance, a "hot zone," an area that contained lethal, infectious organisms. An Army team, wearing space suits, killed the 450 surviving monkeys by lethal injection, and the cadavers were place in plastic bags for disposal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Now Read the Book | 9/5/1994 | See Source »

...Aggressive from the start, James Farley outlined a program that would appeal to every class of people; speakers were admirably fitted to audiences, texts to local interests. The personal charm and sympathy of his candidate, the confident progression of his campaign, contrasted favorably with the cold mechanical personality, the franctic last minute efforts of Mr. Hoover. More-over, to a nation oppressed with taxes and disgusted with the failure of the Eighteenth Amendment "Immediate Repeal" had far more meaning than the verbiage surrounding "Resubmission...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW LAMPS FOR OLD | 11/9/1932 | See Source »

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