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...sexy pipes as more of a curse than a blessing. “I try not to speak that much,” says Boutwell. “Otherwise, girls just uncontrollably flock to me!” For all the virile baritones sharing in Boutwell’s plight, FM reminds you that condoms are available free of charge...
...Dunster St., I wandered aimlessly, nursing my dashed hopes, taunting petition forms, and fruitless course syllabi I had so optimistically brought along with me. But worse than my all but failed quest was a realization I slowly came to, a realization that applied not just to my specific plight: the criteria I had just been told about were wholly and shockingly arbitrary. I felt like I might as well have been told that a course can’t count unless it meets on a Monday and Wednesday after 4, and Thursday before 11. And even more than this randomness...
...star Usher. Afterward, Des Moines Register columnist David Yepsen wrote: "There wasn't a big winner of Thursday night's debate among the Democratic presidential candidates, but there was a clear loser--Barack Obama." At a rural-issues forum on a farm outside Adel, Iowa, Obama sympathized with the plight of farmers this way: "Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and seen what they charge for arugula?" (That high-end grocery store chain doesn't have any locations in Iowa...
Awareness of the plight of the "kids from the creek" began in Utah about four years ago. Volunteers working with street kids and runaways began to notice a new breed of homeless teen who didn't have the survival and social skills other teens had. But long before public awareness began to rise, Brenda Jensen, a co-director at Hope Organization, took runaway boys into her home. She fled the FLDS 30 years ago and married a fellow exile from another polygamist group...
...floods devouring Uganda, Magezi-Akiiki says that the government will now consider the effects of global warming, such as increased rainfall, in its planning of future infrastructure projects. Ironically, Africa produces far less carbon than other continents, leading some scientists to blame industrialized countries for Africa's climate plight. Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni announced at an African Union summit this year that developed countries were "committing aggression" against Africa by causing global warming...