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...result is a safety hazard of the worst kind. Some students pack into bus stairwells, blocking exits and exerting a dangerous pressure on buses' retractable doors. Others make themselves comfortable by sitting on the dashboard, almost entirely obstructing the driver's view of traffic. As one driver candidly remarked, "students cram in just about everywhere except my lap." Indeed, the Mather-Science Center shuttle was so crowded last Monday morning that the driver had to rely on students near the window to tell him when traffic was clear--a fact that was particularly disturbing in light of the perilous road...
...prevailing sound is the crack of pistol shots felling livestock. Farms appear barren save for the smoldering pyres on which hundreds of perfectly healthy animals were incinerated last week. So far McInnes' herd has avoided infection, which means he still has a chance to unload the farm and "pack up and leave." But he can't move-his land has been quarantined, leaving him little to do but despair. "I wake up every morning wondering whether the wind has blown this devilish disease to my cows," he says. "You can only imagine the state of anguish...
...were offers made by India and the Metropolitan Museum in New York to buy the statues and have them removed, chunk by chunk, to safety. The Taliban vowed to press ahead with the demolition job; earlier, they drilled a hole in the larger statue's head so they could pack in dynamite there and around its feet, toppling the 1,400 year old colossus. The smaller statue was already badly damaged: as a cruel joke, Taliban militiamen had fired a rocket at its groin. Until last Saturday, the regime was denying access to Bamiyan, so it was still uncertain whether...
...European and World Championship events as a member of the French national team. The rider, who asks to be identified only as Michel, says his fondest memories are of the "incomparable euphoria of strength and power I'd get finding myself at the head of a tired and flagging pack, knowing I was about to pull away and ride to victory." But like a growing number of athletes, Michel attained such elation the wrong way. He eventually realized that performance-enhancing substances had ensnared him in the trap of addiction to even worse drugs. Last year Michel...
Sometime around March 25, Guralnick's phone will ring, and she will pack up her things and dash off to be with the Suris. She will stay with them through every push, grunt and moan. And when their baby is born, she will pack up her big rubber ball and move...