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...says Boyd. “It’s difficult to describe how different things were, how wide open things were. The music world was just being developed. The ’60s were a time that educated, middle-class people started to pick up the guitar and play from the roots. There was a huge sense that anything was possible. They could do anything and they’d be the first to do it.”Boyd recounted the easygoing nature of society to the gathered students. “Nobody worried that they might miss...
...magazine and her entwined personal history.“It’s really powerful how much the magazine has continued to reach survivors since it started,” Lemmond said. “I’m so happy to be here tonight. I hope that people pick it up, look through it, and take it home and talk about it.”DIALOGUE?But students remain concerned that raising awareness on campus doesn’t necessarily lead to a transformation in the way sexual assault is discussed, said Chas J. Hamilton...
...think about your family and the things that might go wrong." He estimates that 10% of people crack. They are taken to an area near the Chinese embassy or consulate and told to find their own way there. The fee, in this case, is not collected. "I try to pick people who are young and strong in character," he says. "Otherwise, I lose...
...indeed, the South looks North and sees the U.S. growling: the Wall rises in Arizona. Eagle Pass, Texas, adopts a zero-tolerance policy called Operation Streamline, in which border agents stop sending migrants home and send them to jail instead. Colorado proposes paying prison inmates 60 a day to pick the peppers once harvested by undocumented workers. If Bush's hard line can persuade enough Republicans to embrace "comprehensive" reform--a balance of tough enforcement and some eventual reckoning with the 12 million illegal immigrants already here--then he can test whether, on this one issue at least...
Audiences, especially kids, are taking notice. Two recent studies, published in Lancet and Pediatrics, have found that among children as young as 10, those exposed to the most screen smoking are up to 2.7 times as likely as others to pick up the habit. Worse, it's the ones from nonsmoking homes who are hit the hardest, perhaps because they are spared the dirty ashtrays and musty drapes that make real-world smoking a lot less appealing than the sanitized cinematic version...