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...Beall, who has worked work with women and children who have fled polygamists sects, is the FLDS is a "cult" involved in "plain ole brainwashing since birth." Says Beale, "They have been taught that anyone on the outside is untrustworthy. They are the enemy and they are going to hurt you." He adds, "My experiences with these kids is once they are out of the controlled environment they come to enjoy their freedom...
...Students and faculty members are busy, clearly, but I doubt that they weren’t in the 1970s and 1980s when HoCos were a “big” event and FAS rarely missed quorum. Randomization has obviously hurt House life, but I don’t think that gets to the root of changes either. Mather HoCo, the major anomaly in House life, frequently has 60-80 people at its meetings...
...they're young, they're single; when they age a little, they go directly from husband to widower. Ludlow can't cleanse himself of his wife's untimely death. And like any caring, bereft husband, Ludlow wants a DNA swab from her vagina, so he can find and severely hurt the guy she was having sex with when she died. It's these sensitive little subplots that build heart into the machine of the narrative...
...Congleton doesn’t see the problems of TVT Records, the band's label, as unique. “I don’t think [my label] is really different than any of the other labels that are going under; they are all hurt by the internet, by file sharing,” says Congleton. And he’s right: music sales are continually dropping, illegal downloading is a persistent problem, and government crackdowns only seem to add to the problems...
...Bottom of the Food Chain Of course, higher global prices hurt the poor most, and the impact is particularly heavy in countries such as Bangladesh and the Philippines, which are dependent on imported rice to feed their large populations. A November cyclone in Bangladesh ravaged the fall crop, destroying some 800,000 metric tons of rice and forcing the country to import an extra 2.4 million metric tons from India simply to stave off famine. In Vietnam, bad weather and pest outbreaks hurt harvests. In the Philippines, where some 68 million people live on less than...