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...Farm Workers (UFW), the branch of the AFL-CIO founded by Cesar Chavez, which has fought for and won better living conditions and benefits for employees in the wine-grape, rose and mushroom industries and which has led an important boycott against the table-grape industry for continuing to spray their fields and the nearby neighborhoods with oil-based toxic pesticides. Harvard has participated in the table-grape boycott since the 1980s, and we hope their active participation in that fight will inspire their thinking about the strawberry pickers...
...just this sort of weird episode that mars the surface of a perfectly good apple. One of the best acts of the show, "Muttville Comix Troupe," is comprised of performing dogs "rescued from shelters around the world." But things get a little strange when one dog appears to spray urine all over a section of the audience, which is extremely close to the ring as per the "intimate" set-up. Later, that same dog is thrown out into the audience, literally, and then thrown back to the freaky ring-leader, who continually rubs the dogs' bellies...
...Norte were not all young. They had their elders; "Father John" was in his sixties. But whatever influence that elder had, it was not dictatorial. Police confirmed that the sixty-year old "Father John" was not one of the two who died last. Instead, President Clinton, in the usual spray of condolences, may have hit the mark when he called the suicides "so isolated that they can create a world for themselves that may justify that kind of thing." Create it they had. And each had taken his hemlock, to a degree, independently, to avail themselves of a rare opportunity...
...Like powder after a shower? Save it for your feet. Research suggests that applying powder or deodorant spray to the genital area can increase a woman's risk of OVARIAN CANCER. The worst offender: the sprays, which may up the odds...
...under the shouts. Noises never heard before, torn from my father's mouth. Then silence. My mother had been sewing a button on my shirt. She kept her buttons in a chipped saucer. I heard the rim of the saucer in circles on the floor. I heard the spray of buttons, little white teeth...