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...cornea is the transparent membrane that covers the iris--the colored part of the eye--and the pupil. Occasionally, it becomes scraped, cut or dried out, which may lead to partial or complete loss of vision andoften causes pain...
...agreed to raise the state sales tax from 4% to 6% and to increase the tax on a pack of cigarettes from 25 cents to 75 cents. At the same time, they adopted the Governor's proposal to raise the minimum amount the state's schools must spend per pupil from...
...taxable goods and services will be hit harder than the well off, who spend less of their disposable income. And although the per-student minimum gave it the appearance of egalitarianism, that impulse seems offset by a loophole exempting the state's 40 wealthiest districts from limits on per-pupil spending. Furthermore, sales-tax revenues are notorious for sudden plunges when consumer spending slows down during a recession. Warns Raymond Mackey, a regional director of the American Federation of Teachers, which opposed the measure: "There will be fiscal problems in the future. That's not a warning but a fact...
...Odessa Baiul skates at a rink where the ice is often like spring mush. She shares a little room with her coach's younger daughter, her best friend. Her idol is Rudolf Nureyev, whose pictures adorn the walls. Zmievskaya says her prize pupil "doesn't know what a million dollars is. All she knows is that she needs 10 fantiki ((candy wrappers)) to buy an ice cream...
...narrates this film of his life, accompanied by a green fuzzy Martian (Nabil Shaban) who insists on engaging the precocious child in philosophical discussion. Together they travel to England and we watch Ludwig's intellectual development from an imaginative, over-stimulated youth into a sober, work-obsessed pupil of Bertrand Russell (Micheal Gough) and an awkward frequenter of the oh-so-intellectually fashionable Bloomsbury crowd, including the lovely Lady Ottoline Morrell (Tilda Swinton...