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...brought in from the cold. But officials had become increasingly worried about the giant birds, which have been the object of an intensive six- year, $6 million preservation program. Since the fall of 1984, six of the known wild condors have been lost. One died from eating a lead slug in a carcass that was left behind by hunters. The others, which may also have succumbed to lead poisoning, have simply disappeared. The last wild breeding female has been trapped, briefly detained and found to have high levels of lead in its blood...
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...slug-the-thugs attitude is evident in the judiciary as well. The U.S. Supreme Court now allows judges to admit illegally seized evidence as long as the police acted "in good faith." The Justices also have weakened the Miranda protections under which suspects must be granted counsel before answering police questions. Since the court's 1976 decision allowing capital punishment, 37 states have resumed executions. Pretrial detention of potentially violent defendants is now permitted in different forms in some 30 states...
...enroll (one also got into Suleiman's course and opted for it instead). Unfortunately, Phinney has no immediate plans for an undergraduate lecture course on theory, let alone a smaller, more intense version of the kind Suleiman had originally planned. So those motivated to do so will continue to slug it out for spots in other courses. Those motivated and in the English Department will have to hunt around for sophomore tutorials offering theory several, if not the majority, have none at all) and the valiant concentration offerings that don't consider secondary sources to be of tertiary significance...
...campaign was dogged by innuendoes linking her family to organized crime, and she did not hesitate to slug it out. When the tabloid New York Post reported that her parents had once been arrested on gambling charges, the furious Ferraro said Post Publisher Rupert Murdoch "doesn't have the worth to wipe the dirt from under my mother's shoes." Ferraro's own Roman Catholic Church attacked her pro-choice stand on abortion, but she insisted that the decision must be a woman's, not the state's. When heckled by antiabortion activists, she shot back with wisecracks learned...