Word: half
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After more than a year, Cambridge residents succeeded in passing a petition through City Council on Monday to ban trucks weighing over two and a half tons from driving through Cambridge at night...
...described the agony of being lifted "three and a half feet" out of her bed in the middle of the night by passing trucks...
France: Declared its seven-year skirmish with Algeria, which ended in 1962 after more than half a million deaths...
...singing, it's good enough, though no better than that. She sounds like a reasonably talented boy soprano who accidentally swallowed half a tab of human growth hormone. Alas, even the most mature-sounding teenage voices are too physically fragile to stand up to ruthless exploitation, and Church's is already afflicted with a wobbly vibrato that has TOO MUCH, TOO SOON stamped all over it. If she continues to pump it out night after night, the only place she'll be singing Cio-Cio-San is in the shower...
Already there are private physician labor unions in about half the states, and some American Medical Association delegates want the national organization to study the possibilities and take a stand. There are major hurdles. First, of course, not all doctors agree. And second, there are some questions of definition. Many doctors operate as independent providers -- not as employees -- and for them, banding together could pose antitrust problems. "But doctors have many grievances," says TIME health reporter Janice Horowitz, and banding together may be the only way to address them. In this regard, notes Horowitz, doctors may be following...