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...Porter. Unlike most of her peers, who are tucked safely away in private apartments or houses, Rachel lives in the midst of college students, and she’s seen her share of “people a little too out of control.” Despite the shock, Rachel still has her sights set on coming to Harvard...
...pope, who died at the age of 84 from septic shock and cardiocirculatory collapse, served the papacy for 27 years and was the first non-Italian pope elected in 455 years...
...Magnitude of last week's earthquake off the Indonesian coast, about half the power of the 9.0 shock last December that created the massive tsunami
About a quarter of the way through the novel the reader learns, with a queasy, freezing, absolutely genuine shock, that Never Let Me Go is set in an alternate version of England where the government raises cloned human beings in order to harvest their vital organs for transplant. Although they don't know this when we first meet them, Kathy, Tommy and Ruth are clones, born only to grow up and be taken apart piecemeal...
...with tail and wing feathers and talons removed have been found dumped in wooded areas near the traditional territory of B.C.'s Squamish and Burrard Indian bands, north of Vancouver. Band officials vehemently reject suggestions that aboriginals are involved in the slaughter. "We all share equally the horror and shock and frustration," Squamish Nation council chair Bill Williams says...