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...clear that regardless of your ideas about whether or not life begins at conception, by twenty weeks, the organism in question is a “child.” A living, breathing child, which is about a foot long in length, weighs about a pound, and has arms, legs, fingers, and toes. He or she has distinct facial features, with wrinkly reddish skin, eyes, lips, and a nose. Many babies delivered at this point and after are able to survive indefinitely outside the body of the mother. There is even scientific evidence that between weeks...
...that guns were drawn and strip searches performed - charges Agovino categorically denied. He would neither confirm nor deny reports that dozens of syringes, unlabeled medicine bottles and a blood-transfusion machine were seized. "Let's just say what we took away certainly wasn't shaving cream," he said. Richard Pound, head of the World Anti-Doping Agency, had his doubts about Italy's laws criminalizing athletes, but was encouraged by last week's events. "It's a deterrent as much as anything," he said. "It has shown that, acting together, the sports authorities and public authorities can do something about...
...post players last year,” Delaney-Smith said. “No one who actually liked the low post game. I haven’t had a true low post player in 20 years here. But you can’t pound these kids.”With a solid rotation of Rollins, Budischak, Lackner, freshman Emma Moretzsohn, and sophomore Lauren Fried, Harvard rarely runs into foul trouble and can set up in three-forward sets that exploit smaller defensive units. Last year, the perimeter-oriented McCaffery was often forced to play the power forward slot. This year...
...drink beer out of my leg. How many people can do that?" Specialist Matthew Braddock takes a breather from the pound of pork ribs he's packing away to show off his prosthetic leg. The 25-year-old National Guardsman props his mechanical limb on the picnic table so everybody at Rudy's Country Store and Bar-B-Q can see. Then he rolls up the sleeve of his battle-dress uniform and points to the long, wide, nasty scar left by the explosion that took his leg in northern Iraq a year ago. People come by afterward to slap...
...It’s cheap,” Paul Birkner, 17, said simply, grinning as he sorted through a bin of clothes marked: “T-shirts: $1, Sweats: $2.” Located at the back of the store on the first floor is Dollar-a-Pound, where customers wade through mountains of clothes and accessories, picking and choosing merchandise to stuff into huge plastic bags that are sold by weight. (Although, contrary to its name, articles are actually sold for $1.50 a pound.) Whether it is because of its selection or its prices, the funky vintage store...