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This would not be the first time such a link between pollution and plague has shown up. In a 1988 report to the U.S. Marine Mammal Commission, investigators suggested that a rash of dolphin deaths on America's East Coast might have resulted from bacterial infections that overwhelmed the animals' pollution-damaged immune systems. Environmentalists believe the Mediterranean case is potentially more serious, since it is happening during fall, one of the dolphins' prime breeding seasons. The disease could also spread to other mammals, including monk seals, pilot whales and sperm whales...
Glee Club President Darren Walker '91 says their past gives club members a unique male bond, and member Henry Roman '92, a three-year club member, calls the group a "fraternity-like brotherhood." But all the Holden groups seem to share a social link. The groups' parties, outings and weekend retreats in early autumn allows for social networking that sometimes takes a romantic turn. "There have been a few romances between members of different groups and they have not been discouraged," says Collegium President Kelly Flynn...
...result of girls burying their knowledge, says psychologist Lyn Mikel Brown, a member of the Harvard project, "is self-doubt, ambivalence, panic and loss." Researchers link this confusion to the prevalence among teenage girls of depression and eating disorders...
Pressures to curtail the rights of women come from various puritanical sects within Islam. "They want to impose a new social order by force," says Khalida Messaoudi, president of an Algerian women's organization. "They start by attacking women because women are the weakest link in these societies." Particularly strict is the Wahhabiyah, a movement founded in the 18th century that counts among its adherents many Afghans and the Saudi ruling family. Wahhabi women live behind the veil, are forbidden to drive, and may travel only if accompanied by a husband or a male blood relative. The demands...
...surrogates with no biological link to the children they bear is almost sure to grow. In the past three years, about 80 infants have been born to so-called gestational surrogates, most of them in the U.S. And as biotechnology proceeds, courts are likely to see more cases reinterpreting the once simple legal concept of parenthood...