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...mountain ranges, the area receives an average of 10 in. of rain a year, usually all at once, vs. 36.5 in. in more fertile northern Pakistan, near Kashmir. In summer, temperatures can rise to 130° F. In winter, they can fall to subfreezing levels. Desert scorpions and other noxious fauna abound. Prolonged exposure to Baluchistan can be fatal: when the army of Alexander the Great marched across it on the way home from India, two-thirds of the men died. But local folklore has it that Baluchistan's towering hills are carpets covering vast troves of mineral wealth...
Harvard is to preserve its independence by being dependent on even the most noxious of corporate donors...
...middle of the ocean some people began to care. It was a thick, black, foul-smelling mass of sludge--described as "black mayonnaise"--perhaps 100 square miles in area. No one knew how deep. It came drifting back to the New York shoreline with a number of noxious odors and bacteria. Fortunately, disease and severe hardship was avoided because the threat was detected early. We may not be so lucky again...
Police trying to enforce it, at any rate, have swept up along with the hookers a 25-year-old Radcliffe graduate on the way home from the movies and a church worker counseling prostitutes. Meanwhile, pimps, the most noxious corner of the prostitution triangle, often go untouched. Convicting them is difficult because prostitutes are frequently afraid to testify against them. The Manhattan district attorney's office will use most of $200,000 it just received from the state for combating pimps to change the prostitutes' minds and lives with protection and "travel home" money...
...firms, to which he submitted a detailed questionnaire delving into pay scales, working conditions and advancement opportunities for blacks and coloreds. He also visited plants and spoke to nonwhite workers in their communities. According to his findings, Ford deserves top marks for doing away with the most noxious symbols of apartheid. The company regularly consults nonwhite employees on plant problems and even recognizes black unions; though such unions are not specifically prohibited, black organizing is effectively blocked by South Africa's labor code, which excludes unionized blacks from officially recognized wage negotiations and denies them the right to strike...