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...myself...Please help me! Help my baby!" the doctor refused to see her. All essentials for a healthy pregnancy are missing in prison: nutritious food, exercise, sanitary conditions, prenatal care. Pregnant women are sometimes shackled with waist chains that can injure the fetus and ankle chains that increase the likelihood of falling. A 1985 California Department of Health study found that one-third of all prison pregnancies end in late term miscarriage, more than twice the outside rate. Only 20 percent of prison pregnancies end with live births. The New York Times recently described a woman forced to give birth...
...movement is driven less by ideology than by economics. Part of graduate school's allure has always been the promise of a cushy professorial job and the likelihood of tenure within a few years. But today that career path looks grim. Of the 8,000 students receiving Ph.D.s in the humanities between 1996 and 2000, less than half will land full-time "tenure track" jobs. Increasingly, colleges farm out teaching to part-time instructors, who earn skimpy salaries and rarely get benefits. So, many graduate students figure, they need to haggle for all they can get now--and they think...
...order to avoid a similar sweep by Harvard, Cornell's slim chances for victory lie in the hands of Stahl and Travis Burns. In all likelihood, the Big Red will be Harvard's first Ivy League victory en route to a back-to-back conference title...
Marusic told The Crimson two weeks ago that while the bombings might not stop the genocide, "the likelihood they will stop is greater." Now he calls his former comments "kind of hesitant." The Serbs are "aggressors," he said, adding that the latest news coming from Kosovo is proof of the necessity of the bombings...
...honest, I didn't believe they would do it," Marusic said. "Let's look at the effect there would be if there were no strikes. The genocide would have continued. It doesn't mean they will stop, but the likelihood they will stop is greater...