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...from the strange realm of protozoa--single-celled organisms that have complex, multistep life cycles and are big enough to be seen under an ordinary microscope. Protozoa are usually found in ponds and moist, humid places like garden soil. There are many different types of protozoa, but this particular strain was not identified until the early 1990s...
After her sophomore year, Rainey decided climbing had taken "too much commitment and mental strain." She says she stopped climbing for three months because she felt she needed time to focus on school...
...course, these changes have not come easily, and reform is under great strain. Most Russians have felt the pain of economic dislocation, rampant crime and corruption. Many have been disillusioned by a lack of accountability in government and by the brutal war in Chechnya...
Believe as much of the bribery, suborning and general chicanery that follow as you want to. The trial is soured by corruption on both sides; even jury selection involves widespread spying on long lists of potential jurors. That doesn't altogether strain credibility. But when the jury is chosen and the leanings of one member, a supermarket manager, are learned to be in doubt, Big Tobacco buys his store's entire chain and offers him a fat salary, along with some thoughts on product litigation...
MIAMI, FLORIDA: U.S. Attorney Kendall Coffey announced Friday that he will resign from his job as a federal prosecutor after a Miami newspaper reported accusations that he bit a topless dancer on the arm. "The strain on my family has been so great, I am returning to private practice and I owe it my family to do this," said Coffey at a press conference at the federal courthouse. Coffey's resignation comes one day after the Miami Herald reported that the prosecutor was under investigation by the Justice Department. According to the Herald, a dancer at the Lipstik Adult Entertainment...