Word: highlander
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Nathaniel H. Karol, HIGHLAND PARK...
...more girls and young women were to get vaccinated, we could see a dramatic decrease in the incidence of HPv. Regardless of how effective the vaccine may be, we still must educate youngsters about the importance of protection against other sexually transmitted diseases and unplanned pregnancy. Jennifer Rehberger, R.N., HIGHLAND...
...events in question followed mass protests by poor and indigenous Bolivians against Sanchez de Lozada's plan to export natural gas to the United States via Chile. By October 11, 2003, La Paz was suffering from a fuel shortage because of the blockades in the impoverished highland city of El Alto. On that day, Sanchez de Lozada issued Supreme Decree #27209 which sent the military to escort gas trucks to La Paz. The following week, according to witnesses, the military fired indiscriminately and without warning in El Alto neighborhoods...
...Security Council efforts to ransom American hostages held in Lebanon. One of Perot's assistants dubbed the GM payoff "hush-mail." Shareholders, meanwhile, were outraged that GM paid about $60?or twice the going market rate?for each of Perot's series E shares. One stockholder, Abraham Duman of Highland Park, Tll., filed a suit against GM, claiming that its directors had violated their fiduciary responsibility by paying such an enormous sum to Perot...
...there is no guarantee that Morales will be treated like a conquering hero for very long. "Recuperation" originally meant kicking out the foreign companies, in the view of residents of El Alto, the highland impoverished city neighboring La Paz and the center of the "Gas Wars," the 2003 and 2005 protests calling for nationalization that forced out two presidents. Since Morales' plan seems more practical, they offer their support - but only if there is something to show for it, and soon...