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...draws on the board and interacts with the students. I teach biology so she plays with the skeleton,” Velez said. I’m teaching [Invertebrate Systematic] this semester and so we get live animals like tarantulas. Today she was playing with a leech...
...have made much impact. For one thing, Iran has been dealing with such restrictions since the Islamic revolution in 1979. For another, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is probably in on the open secret about economic sanctions: they don't really work. Attempts to economically isolate troublemaking nations are the leech treatments of international diplomacy: traditional cure-alls that, though well-intentioned, rarely force regime change or prompt significant policy shifts, particularly when done unilaterally - and often a greater hardship for the citizens living under these regimes than for the leaders. (Read TIME's interview with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad...
...Shouldn't those who leech off our current health-care system with preventable illnesses caused by nongenetic obesity, smoking and alcohol abuse have to pay more than those of us who understand the painfully simple concepts of good health and prevention? Thaddeus Labhart, Burns...
Shouldn't those who leech off our current health-care system with preventable illnesses caused by nongenetic obesity, smoking and alcohol abuse have to pay more than those of us who understand the painfully simple concepts of good health and prevention? Thaddeus Labhart, BURNS...
...biggest export market for the Center's leeches is France. Nikonov, however, says that he remains very selective about his clientele. "We are careful about who we export them to," he says. "I know in certain cuisines people put the leech on a goose. They wait until it gets fat on the goose blood and then fry the leech like it's a sausage. This is considered a delicacy. I feel sorry for the leech. They should not be used this...