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...endangered. Because the FSLN government wants to repopulate Nicaragua (which lost 30,000 people during the war), contraception is not encouraged. Nor is it discouraged--family planning counseling and devices are free to all women, regardless of age or marital status. As with abortions, a woman can only obtain valid contraceptive prescriptions from government clinics...
Since the Faculty formed the department in 1968, up to four buildings have housed parts of the department. But biochemistry's growth created overcrowding and overuse of facilities like the biology and chemistry labs. The department attempted to raise money through private sources, but failed to obtain the necessary funds. Not until 1977 did the University appropriate the balance of the $12 million required to erect the biochemists' own building...
Since the Faculty formed the department in 1968, up to four buildings have housed parts of the department. But biochemistry's growth created overcrowding and overuse of facilities like the biology and chemistry labs. The department attempted to raise money through private sources, but failed to obtain the necessary funds. Not until 1977 did the University appropriate the balance of the $12 million required to erect the biochemists' own building...
...America. Yet one day last week in Detroit he quietly surrendered his certificate of naturalization, and will soon lose the U.S. citizenship he has held for 23 years. When he took this action, he was facing trial on a federal charge that he had lied in order to obtain his citizenship...
...exchange is not the zloty but the dollar, the deutsche mark or outright barter. Waiting time to buy a Polish-built Fiat can be shortened from four years to a few weeks if payment is made in dollars rather than zloty. The plumber, whose services are normally difficult to obtain, comes immediately if the bill is paid with a pair of nylon hosiery. Hard-to-get meats like veal are available, at six times the official price; wealthy nightclub patrons in Warsaw are occasionally pounced on by flashers who pull open their coats to offer for sale not their bodies...