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Then Sanders got lucky. He was charged with only disorderly conduct and sentenced to eight days of community service. But his parole officer would be told of the violation, and his urine would be dirty. Sanders walked to his mother's house in the rain, hoping the water would cleanse the stench of the jail. He told his mother he'd been arrested, leaving out the bit about the drugs. "I had a moment of weakness," he said. "You always have a moment of weakness," she replied...
...academic aims are compromised because cashiers at the Greenhouse make less than $10.83 per hour. Please. I suppose, then, that once Harvard’s least skilled and (forgive my frankness) most replaceable workers get raises, we’ll see Nobel Prizes and research grants rain down like manna from heaven...
...forensic evidence on the bridge that could have showed where or how Wiley fell off may have been destroyed by the half-inch of rain that fell in Memphis on Nov. 19, according to Boston private investigator James Burke...
...Rain may be the best hope for Australians caught in the path of wildfires still raging near Sydney. Almost two weeks after the fires began around the southeastern Australian city, the blazes have blackened millions of acres of land, and officials said Friday there?s little to suggest the end is near. Roughly 20,000 firefighters from across the country are now battling the flames...
...Nature has given firefighters some help, as temperatures across the area have dropped from highs in the 100-degree range earlier this week. Still, officials say that given other conditions, including gusty winds, the change will have little dampening effect on the blazes. Fire officials say that rain is the best change that they can hope for, and is the key to ending the wildfires. There is some hope on the horizon, in the form of two giant water-bombing helicopters. Two Erikson Air-Crane Helitankers are expected to arrive in the area Monday, courtesy of fire officials...