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...IV. Homo Querulosus--This species is also known as the Protester. A common misconception is that for each cause, there is a different species. But all protesters, from the Old Fogeys-to-be of AALARM to the myriad of screechy hyperactivists of the left are cut from the same cloth. They are blowfish inflated with self-righteousness--never upset but "shocked" and "outraged." A profoundly masochistic breed, they are never so gleeful as when they are aggrieved. Conversely, they are never so lost, dejected, and confused as when they get what they want. Rather than suffer from such a fate...
...IV. The Uniqueness Clause: There may be no new publication whose mission substantially duplicates that of another...
...injured Davis, having just been rescued from a burning plane, starts immediately reporting from her stretcher and continues to conduct interviews, arm in a sling and IV attached, with her fellow survivors at the hospital...
...tokens. If adopted, the automated system promises to save time for motorists, improve safety at toll plazas, cut pollution and possibly reduce tolls. Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas currently use automated toll collection. New York is jointly testing two technologies -- one developed by Amtech, another by AT&T and Mark IV Industries -- in conjunction with New Jersey and Pennsylvania...
...researchers were also able to put to rest the concern that free needles would entice youngsters into IV drug use. The average participant in the program is 35 and has been shooting drugs for seven years. "We are not encouraging kids from the local high school," says Kaplan. Most important, researchers established that within six months of the program's start, the rate of new infections had dropped one-third...