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Like polar bears, the Inuit of northern Canada and Greenland subsist on seals and other fatty Arctic animals and have some of the highest exposures to PCBs. Nobody has yet reported any hermaphroditic children, thankfully, and while the effects of massive PCB exposure can include cancer and retardation, the lower levels in seals and seabirds haven't been definitively linked to any specific ills...
...need to make sure Harvard and other places no longer subsist on the backs of people who do the real work at Harvard,” SEIU deputy trustee Rocio Saenz told the crowd...
...state-run system works today. Only two teams, the Sina Lions and the Beijing Olympians, are privately held. The rest are either partially or wholly owned by government entities (the August 1 Rockets team is fielded by the People's Liberation Army). Each is expected to subsist mainly on an annual allowance doled out by the league. This year the stipend is $133,000 per team, which is supposed to help cover player salaries, food, equipment and travel for a 26-game schedule, plus play-offs. It doesn't go far. One poverty-stricken club in Shanxi province reportedly...
Some band’s musical identities are entirely bound up in a single, sometimes peripheral, instrument, sound or refrain. This is, in parlance, the gimmick. The gimmick defines the band, makes it unique, is its lifeblood—without the gimmick, the band cannot musically subsist in any recognizable form. Familiar gimmicks include (or, better, should include) Jethro Tull’s flute, Jimi Hendrix’s Arbiter Fuzz Face, The Police’s delay pedal and Peter Frampton’s Talkbox—all part and parcel with their performers’ legacy...
...content to subsist on grade-C summer leftovers like The Cell, you're going to have to look past current studio offerings. Independent film pickings are pretty slim right now, but thankfully, the new film Urbania is among them...