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...Sanghera is certainly no angel. Though underage, she flees Derby with her older, lower-caste boyfriend Jassey, to her family's shame. The young couple settles in nearby Leeds, where Jassey, a trained engineer, sells cheap watches in a market stall to support them. Sanghera rewards his good-humored steadiness with an adulterous affair and a divorce. Then she ditches her lover, finds another husband and leaves him as well, temporarily losing custody of a child...
...House of Representatives passed legislation last week that would cut interest rates on need-based student loans in half over the next five years. The College Student Relief Act of 2007, which would lower the interest rate from 6.8 percent to 3.4 percent, was among the top legislative priorities for the new Democrats-led Congress in its first 100 legislative hours. The bill must still be approved by the Senate and signed by the president before it can become law. Though the legislation promises to have a wide impact nationally, it will affect Harvard students far less than it will...
...Daley - facing token opposition, as he does this time - received 78% of the vote. And on Feb. 27, an election date not exactly selected to encourage turnout in the Windy City, he is likely to do just as well. "With every election, Daley wins with higher margins and lower turnouts," says Jay Stewart, executive director of the Chicago-based Better Government Association. Even if his percentage slips a bit, one thing he won't change is his opposition to campaign debates. Daley doesn't engage in them because, plain and simple, he doesn't have to. The result...
...findings call into serious question whether the tobacco industry has changed at all in its pursuit of addicting smokers since signing the Master Settlement Agreement of 1998 with the State Attorneys General.” However, the study’s leaders were careful to note that lower nicotine content in cigarettes may not affect overall nicotine intake. Previous studies have shown that smokers tend to take “larger puffs” or smoke more cigarettes if they smoke cigarettes with less nicotine in them, the study’s authors said. But in a statement on their...
...touched the skin between Victor's nose and mouth. His missing index finger was being brushed, Victor said. A spot just below Victor's left nostril caused the boy to feel a tingling on his left pinkie. And when Victor felt an itch in his phantom hand, scratching his lower face relieved the itch. In people who have lost a limb, Ramachandran concluded, the brain reorganizes: the strip of cortex that processes input from the face takes over the area that originally received input from a now missing hand. That's why touching Victor's face caused brain to "feel...