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...Carter told the group of about 25 project residents, "We must have a voice to the White House to get rid of kingpins and stop drugs from incarcerating young Black people...
...generations, pregnant women have dosed themselves with unpalatable, hazardous potions in desperate, largely unsuccessful efforts to rid their bodies of unwanted fetuses. Among the dubious household remedies: swallowing narcotics made from hempseed, douching with the caustic disinfectant potassium permanganate, and even quaffing gin laced with iron filings. Such medieval measures are now giving way to a modern alternative: drugs that can induce abortion. Approved in pill form abroad, they appear to have what their noxious predecessors lacked: safety and efficacy. They are not, however, lacking in controversy...
...hard students in the front of thereading room, rid of their distraction, returnedto their studies
...file for later editing or printing. But HOLLIS, unfortunately, in its VT100 mode, moves the cursor for every display of cataloging information! (It could be scrolling the information instead.) What this means is that anyone seeking to print collected displays will have to edit the file first to get rid of the cursor-moving escape sequences. What gives? After years of modifying software OIT had to get from another university, can't the most trivial ease-of-use features be integrated into the system...
...hastily trained Afghan cosmonaut, Abdul Ahad Mohmand. Replied a ground controller: "How are things with food?" Lyakhov: "There is no food." Controller: "What about the emergency rations?" Lyakhov: "They are there, but why touch them? We will be patient," he added, noting that there was no way to rid themselves of wastes...