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Perhaps the hardship began when an Atlanta paper questioned Black's decision to attend Harvard. It criticized her choice of a school with a lesser basketball tradition than the southern powers. It mentioned her equally-talented AAU teammate, who chose the University of Georgia. "Kelly Black: Harvard?" the headline read...
...enforcement at their disposal. Commanders of the army, air force, navy and national police were quick to stress their neutrality. "This situation is very serious. There must be a rapid solution. There cannot be a power vacuum," said Gen. Paco Moncayo, head of the army. In Ecuador, where economic hardship and bumbling politicians have left many citizens nostalgic for military rule, the immensely popular general might neatly fit such a vacancy. But Moncayo, calling for a "legal solution," insisted "the armed forces are not going to take power." Six months after electing "El Loco," Ecuadorians...
...because these methods rely on persistent behavioral patterns in a creature who is often unreliable, unable to judge risk accurately or irrationally convinced that he is immortal and invincible. The solution to stopping the spread of AIDS is a vaccine to prevent further untold, unspeakable pain, suffering and economic hardship. The task is to develop a vaccine, not a cure. SARAH E. BLACKWELL London...
...more than 20 drivers in the room nodded in agreement as Lang called the rule "harsh" and a "hardship" on drivers. They charged that the rule fails to properly address those safety concerns that motivated the 1994 rule...
This doesn't mean that paleontologists have found hominid bones with "Adam" stamped on them along with evidence that Adam disobeyed God, thus condemning the rest of us to lives of toil and hardship. But it does mean that this biblical story line, as transmuted by later thinkers into religious doctrine, has produced some ideas that resonate with modern Darwinian theory. In particular, the Christian doctrine of original sin makes more sense as evolutionary psychologists learn more about why people do bad things...