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Late last month rampaging white hoodlums attacked blacks with iron bars and baseball bats, injuring three North African immigrants. As the assaults continued, authorities flooded the city with 300 police to quell the violence and chase out immigrant street vendors, who have angered native-born merchants, inflaming tensions. After a hunger strike by more than 100 Senegalese, the city agreed to new rules governing street sales...
...several occasions I have shot mamba, which are the most poisonous snakes around. The snakes are extremely fast," says Clay Professor of Archaeology Nicolaas J. van der Merwe. He encountered the snakes while surveying a South African game reserve for possible Iron Age vilage sites...
FIRST it was Pepsi, then Billy Joel. Now, McDonald's and the corporate practices of Donald Trump have crossed the Iron Curtain. Moscow may resemble the U.S. faster than we expected--except it will look more like Wall Street than Washington...
...nutritional value of meat has been greatly exaggerated," said Maynard S. Clark of the Farm Animal Reform Movement. "The protein value of meat is approximately that of soybeans, lentils, nuts and the seeds. The four nutritional advantages of meat products--protein, calcium, iron and vitamin B-12--are readily available in a diverse diet from plant foods...
...practice, it doesn't work that way. The iron-clad protection of tenure is simply not necessary to cultivate diverse opinions. For one thing, universities themselves hold academic freedom sacred and will attempt to protect scholarship from outside interference, as they did during the McCarthy Era. Second, the legal system offers instructors protection against wrongful dismissal. For example, in the case of Ofsevit v. the State University of California and Colleges, the California high court ruled that the First Amendment protects teachers from dismissal for their political beliefs or activities...