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...stickier than explaining Harvard places and objects is the quandary of whether to use real names of people. Gessen’s titular sad young men represent what he describes as three guys who are each similar in different ways to the author...
Attorneygate is getting stickier and stickier. All of Washington is now anxiously awaiting the release of documents later today that could well determine the fate of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Meanwhile, the specifics of one firing, that of San Diego Prosecutor Carol Lam, is getting curioser and curioser...
...earth--or aerosol form, which can travel anywhere around the globe. Either way, when it lands, trouble begins. On the ground or especially in the low-oxygen environment of the oceans, mercury is consumed by bacteria that add a bit of carbon to convert it to methylmercury, a metabolically stickier form that stays in the body a long time. That is bad news for the food chain, since every time a bigger animal eats a smaller animal, it consumes a heavy dose of its prey's mercury load. That's why such large predatory fish as shark, swordfish, mackerel, tilefish...
Keeping young mothers in school has proved to be a stickier problem. Among TAPP counselees, for example, nearly half who were not enrolled in school were persuaded to resume their education. Unfortunately, an additional 31% who had been attending decided to drop out. In New York City, special public high schools have been established for pregnant teenagers to encourage them to stick with it. New York has also established day-care facilities at 18 of its 117 high schools, so that mothers can continue to attend after they have given birth...
...carry out a phased elimination of battlefield nuclear weapons. The problems are obvious: agreement would be required not only from Britain and France but from China, the other known member of the "nuclear club" and a nation that has so far refused to join any nuclear negotiations. An even stickier problem is that the U.S. and its NATO allies depend on nuclear weapons to deter the Soviets from attacking or threatening Western Europe. The Warsaw Pact has a hefty superiority in ground troops and conventional weapons...