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...most hideous experiments, first reported on December 26 by the Boston Globe, scores of mentally retarded children at the Fernald School in Waltham, Mass., were given radioactive iron and calcium with their breakfast cereal. The experiments, conducted by Harvard and MIT scientists from 1946 to 1956, were done without fully disclosing the hazards to all the subjects, the newspaper said...
...about 50 people at Hachioji, near Tokyo. "But when I think that the rats and fleas I bred were used in experiments which killed so many people, I feel that it's my task to tell everyone that such things took place." The audience stirs uneasily, sharing a hideous secret from the past...
...destroy each other like this; only once, Martha alludes to this, "[George] who can make me laugh, and I choke it back in my throat; who can hold me at night, so that it's warm, and whom I will bite so there's blood...who has made the hideous, the hurting, the insulting mistake of loving me and must be punished...
...easy being the hottest book editor in New York. Regan, who has custody of her two children (ages 2 and 12), is contemplating a move to Hollywood, but only "if I can get out of the most hideous, disgusting marriage to the biggest a--- who ever lived. I tell you, the pain and agony I have been through professionally is nothing compared to getting a divorce. Sure, they hate me and want to kill me, but try getting a divorce from my husband. It pales." Next to Judith Regan, so does practically everything...
Clearly, the ad was a hideous example of poor taste, and the decision to run it displayed a total lack of tact on the part of The Owl, the paper at the center of this controversy. Nevertheless, the reaction of these students was unwarranted. First of all, in these socially aware times an ad as anachronistic as one for topless dancers should be a self-mockery, not deserving of attention from students who have better things...