Word: huges
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Once mothers do find their way onto the Medicaid rolls, they must locate physicians willing to deliver care to Medicaid patients. But partly because of huge medical school debts and tremendous malpractice premiums, more than half of American obstetricians cannot afford to provide prenatal care at Medicaid rates. As a result, one-third of low-income women who received inadequate prenatal care last year attributed this failure to their inability to locate a health care provider, according to a study done by the General Accounting Office...
...although Verba says other libraries have had automatic catalogue systems--like HOLLIS--ahead of Harvard, he attributes this to the size of the University's collection, which makes it harder to computerize. "We have a huge collection and therefore it's not only more difficult to do an automatic catalogue, but it's not the kind of decision you can make and then change," Verba says...
...peaceful character of the sit-in was a tribute to the political skills of the student leaders. When three youths defaced a huge portrait of Mao in the square with blotches of red and black paint, students handed the vandals over to the People's Armed Police for punishment and replaced the portrait. The three best-known leaders of the protest, who proved to be almost as elusive as their political elders meeting in the western hills, are Guo Haifeng, 23, a graduate student in international politics at Peking University; Wang Dan, 20, a history major at Peking University...
...huge webs of strong nylon mesh, known as drift nets, can cover a slice of ocean up to 40 miles wide and 40 ft. deep. In North Pacific waters, fishermen from Japan, South Korea and Taiwan routinely let the nets float for as long as nine hours at night. They are intended to catch squid, but they also scoop up sea turtles, porpoises, seals, birds and various kinds of fish. Environmentalists call them killer nets and accuse those who use them of "strip-mining" the ocean...
There are no screaming sirens, no darting searchlights, but a huge prison break is going on all across the country. After a decade of tough, mandatory sentences and soaring drug arrests, U.S. prisons are overstuffed with inmates. Nearly 628,000 convicted criminals, more than the population of Milwaukee, are bursting the seams of federal and state lockups. An additional 150,000 languish in local jails, sometimes for months, awaiting trial. Some prisons are so crowded that in many states authorities have no choice but to let inmates loose just to accommodate the stream of new arrivals...