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...Hall, the reason why the faculty of the Afro-American Studies program had so few members well into the 1970s was that it "broke down at the initial chair appointment." By the time Hall left in 1969 to pursue further study at Florida State University and the University of Maryland, the position of chair was still unfilled...
Critics also argue that condoms, which can have a failure rate of between 10% and 15%, are not the best protection against AIDS. Human Life International, a Maryland-based Christian sexuality-education group, has vowed to sue the New York City board of education if any student gets pregnant or contracts a sexually transmitted disease while using a school-supplied condom. The alternative that schools should be promoting, critics argue, is chastity...
...this resentment justified? As always when accounting is involved, the answers can get murky. Senator Paul Sarbanes, a Maryland Democrat, angrily charges Saudi Arabia with "reaping a windfall gain of something on the order of $40 billion" from the crisis by stepping up oil production and selling crude at higher prices. Other estimates run up to $50 billion a year. Western diplomats in Riyadh assert, however, that such calculations assume a price of $30 per bbl. maintained for a full year and that current prices are well below that. They estimate the Saudi windfall at $8 billion to $10 billion...
...missing text is Pennsylvania, which will be host of the bicentennial celebration of the charter's ratification in Philadelphia next year. "We have no idea what happened to our copy," says the state's head archivist, Harry Whipkey. Next-door Delaware can't provide a copy either; like Maryland, Delaware returned its version to the Federal Government after the Bill of Rights' ratification. So Philadelphia officials are now contemplating crossing the Delaware to see if they can borrow New Jersey's original for the festivities...
...cripple Iraq? And even if they can, will that be enough to persuade Saddam to leave Kuwait? Those questions are dissolving the once solid support for the Bush policy along partisan lines as Democrats in Congress have begun to insist, loudly, that the embargo must be given time. Says Maryland Senator Paul Sarbanes: "The cost of a year of waiting is nothing compared with the cost of a week...