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...line makes for an unstable and dangerous ride. It is the internal combustion equivalent of yaba: fast, fun, treacherous. And certain to result, eventually, in a fatal spill. But if you're young and Thai and loaded on mad medicine, you feel immortal and it doesn't occur to you that this night of racing will ever, really, have to end. The hundreds of bikers thronged on the street, the revving engines, the other kids cheering as you make your runs, even the cops coming and setting off concussion grenades and then chasing you through the narrow alleys of Klong...
...whether to give the chief's gavel to the new appointee or elevate a current Justice--triggering another hearing. All the moving parts are at least as hard to juggle if liberals John Paul Stevens or Ruth Bader Ginsburg, for age or health reasons, step down. Conservatives hope vacancies occur before 2002, when Democrats could win back the Senate...
Although celiac disease is a hereditary disorder, it can strike at any time, starting in childhood. "The first peak occurs at one to three years of age," says Dr. Marvin Ament, a pediatric gastroenterologist at UCLA. "Typically, within six months after the introduction of cereals [to an infant's diet], you'll see a change in the stools. There's progressively more diarrhea, and you'll notice that the growth rate starts to slow." Other peaks occur just before puberty...
Reduce funding to schools where the students are already struggling? Doesn't it occur to anyone that this will increase the problems? What are we going to do later with the children who are stuck at these schools? Build more jails for them? Is this compassionate conservatism? Bush's school-funding cuts and grants for character education are simply another poorly disguised gift to his rich friends at the expense of the rest of us. Virtually all poorly performing schools are in poverty-stricken areas, and top performers are mostly where the rich live. TOM BRADLEY Poway, Calif...
...intoxicated. Rabbah got up and cut R. Zeira's throat. The next day Rabbah asked for mercy, and R. Zeira was revived. The following year, Rabbah said to R. Zeira, 'Come, and let us have a festive Purim meal together.' R. Zeira said to him, 'A miracle does not occur every time...