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...controversy surfaced this spring at James Madison University in Virginia's historic Shenandoah Valley when a state legislator became outraged that the school's health center was dispensing an emergency contraceptive known as the morning-after pill. Virginia state delegate Robert Marshall learned that the publicly funded university had prescribed the pill more than 2,000 times since 1995. The pill, which acts by delaying ovulation, preventing fertilization or inhibiting implantation, is in Marshall's view a form of abortion, and he sent a chiding letter to J.M.U. president Linwood Rose and the board of visitors, as the school...
...back, and take in The Matrix Reloaded passively in a darkened theater if you want. But for the real red-pill experience, you're going to have to swap that bucket of popcorn for a console and controller. The Wachowski brothers, raised on video games, always intended it that way--and created an intricate plot for a game called Enter the Matrix that wraps around the second movie like one strand of a DNA double helix around another...
...tried to tough it out to save the cost of a hospital visit. He was diagnosed three weeks ago with tuberculosis. He sold his chickens and ducks to buy $20 worth of medicine. At his pine-board house on a hillside in Guangxi, he lays out five precious pill bottles and points out a Mao Zedong calendar with an "X" over each day he's taken the drugs, which are quickly running out. He's already drawn a $60 loan from the bank to pay for pills, seed and fertilizer, but is too weak to work his fields. With...
According to Darst, every five dollars can buy one pill that prevents the passage of AIDS from a pregnant mother to her child...
HOWARD PIEN Pill Pitcher...