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Long-established practices in the livestock industry are also worrisome. For decades, cattle ranchers have been promoting weight gain in steers and heifers by giving them drugs. More than half the 35 million U.S. cattle sold at market each year had pellets embedded behind their ears that during key growth stages slowly released hormones, including testosterone or progesterone. The drugs can cut 21 days off the time needed for an animal to reach 1,000 lbs. and at the same time promote development of leaner meat. Ranchers say this translates into savings for them (the $1 implant shaves roughly...
...Professor of Law Derrick A. Bell said, "The turning down of two or three people was a very traumatic and divisive happening. It's not the natural order of things here. So an occasion when two people gain unanimous support across ideological lines is a particularly welcome event after trauma...
...soon see that most are like franchised versions of the old side-show huckster who promises love with his magic potions and elixirs. Somewhere in front of the legumes you'll confront some of the ever-present, catchy slogans that infiltrate our fitness mentality : CRASH WEIGHT GAIN, RIPPED 'ABS' IN FIVE SECONDS, LOSE WEIGHT WHILE YOU SLEEP, BIG BICEPS WHILE YOU DO NOTHING BUT SPEND MONEY ON THIS PRODUCT...
...aims to free not only investment resources but human resources as well. With public pressure building to reduce or even abandon the Soviet Union's unpopular conscription, Gorbachev said last October that the length of military service may be shortened. Presumably, for each good soldier lost, Moscow hopes to gain a good worker...
Most of the Irish arriving in the U.S. have simply stayed on once their six- month tourist or work visas expired. They insist they are in America by stealth because there was no way for them to gain legal entry. The newcomers argue that the U.S. immigration act of 1965 discriminated against the Irish and other Europeans by giving preference to applicants who had family members legally in the U.S. Since Europeans had not been moving in large numbers to America for many years, they were all but locked out. The non-Europeans, mostly Asians and Latin Americans, used...