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...with. One of my early livestock design projects was to create a dip-vat and cattle-handling facility for a feed yard in Arizona. A dip vat is a long, narrow, 7-ft.-deep swimming pool through which cattle move in single file. It is filled with pesticide to rid the animals of ticks, lice and other external parasites. In 1978 dip-vat designs were very poor. The animals often panicked because they were forced into the vat down a steep, slick decline. They would refuse to jump into the vat and would sometimes flip over backward and drown...
...appears ready to do whatever it takes to get rid of the Iraqi dictator once and for all. But while there is plenty of will, there still is no clearly effective way to move against Saddam. Senior Administration officials at the highest levels of planning say there are few good options. Saddam's internal security makes a successful coup unlikely. The Iraqi opposition is weak and scattered. And this is a war that the rest of the world, with the possible exception of Britain, is not eager for America to wage. While key allies in the Middle East, such...
...illness among their personal battles, parity legislation isn't just about making health care more accessible, it's about making patients feel less ashamed of having mental health problems. Sen. Pete Domenici, Republican of New Mexico, spoke with CNN after the President's speech Monday. "We want to get rid of the stigma so there's no more discrimination," he says. Domenici, whose daughter suffers from mental illness, is a sponsor of the Senate bill...
...Getting rid of that stigma means addressing mental illnesses with the same seriousness as physical ones. "I think there are disorders that should absolutely be covered, like depression or panic disorders," says Dr. Wayne Katon, vice chair of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine. "They should be treated exactly like medical disorders - because they are medical disorders. Not covering them means we don't believe these are real disorders, and on a scientific basis we're way past that way of thinking...
...Summers’s dispute with Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74, there was concern about his commitment to diversity from among several senior faculty members, according to one who said in the fall that she feared that Summers wanted to “get rid of Afro...