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...felt numb, then outraged, then nothing at all as he contemplated the problems that would baffle other students: where he would receive mail, how he would pay for school, how he could obtain prescription drugs...

Author: By April H.N. Yee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: After Storm, An Uncertain Calm | 9/12/2005 | See Source »

...South Dakota law enacted in February allows retailers--or, more specifically, the ones quick enough to record a suspect's license-plate number--to obtain contact info from the police to seek reimbursement as well as payment of service charges and any court costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Try to Gas and Dash | 8/16/2005 | See Source »

...fair, hukou reforms have been underway. Some cities have loosened requirements so that rural migrants who have lived and worked there for a year can obtain urban hukous. Others have started allowing registration of rural hukou-holders from outlying counties. But these reforms are still moving too slowly. Only the small cities have begun reform, but most migrants go to larger cities where integration remains difficult...

Author: By N. KATHY Lin, | Title: Beyond 2008 | 8/5/2005 | See Source »

...which are needed to grow the resulting clone (in this case, a cell from the ear of an adult Afghan hound was the genesis of the cloned puppy) do not mature in the ovary, but instead finish their development in the oviduct. It's much easier for scientists to obtain eggs from the ovary than from the oviduct. Many researchers have tried, but failed to get the timing right to get the most mature eggs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Your Dog Be Cloned? | 8/4/2005 | See Source »

...given special permit carries a maximum six-month jail sentence, Eoe says: it breaches not only the Cultural Property Preservation Act but part of the criminal code related to interfering with human remains. Yet in p.n.g., where corruption is pervasive and police are so poorly resourced they struggle to obtain fuel for mobile patrols, investigating non-violent crime is not a priority. Time has learned that none of the people involved in the apparent attempt to export the two skulls has yet been charged. "I don't know why it's taken so long," says Wewak police detective Kila Tali...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Head Hunters | 7/25/2005 | See Source »

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