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...question. Rather, the astute student might ask: are drugs being distributed in the most efficient way possible? The answer, sadly, is no. Competition would drive down prices and, eventually, increase supply, if only drugs were legalized and operated in the free market system. Some of my friends would have thicker wallets once the market equilibrium price replaces the distorted black market. If illicit drugs were legal, then no dealer would ever have problems enforcing their property rights. Instead of suffering theft, a disincentive to industry and commerce if their ever was one, drug salesmen for the first time will...
...been fixed. The people have been evacuated. Army Corps of Engineers magicians will pump the city dry, and the slow (but quicker than we think) job of rebuilding will begin. Then there will be no 24-hour news coverage. The spin doctors' narrative will create a wall of illusion thicker than the new levees. The job of turning our national disaster into sound-bite-size commercials with somber string music will be left to TV. The story will be sanitized as our nation's politicians congratulate themselves on a job well done. Americans of all stripes will demonstrate saintly concern...
...shuttle flock. The tiles on Discovery seem relatively clean, with 80% fewer chips than shuttles usually sustain--a tribute to the strides the engineers have made. But had the big piece of foam broken off lower in the atmosphere, it would have slammed into a wall of thicker air and could have crashed far harder into the ship. NASA doesn't want to rely on luck again...
Students say they intend to focus their efforts in the summer and throughout the fall on mitigating the inconveniences of construction, including pressuring the College to install thicker windows in Leverett’s G-tower and delay the start time of construction until 9 a.m. They may also seek financial compensation that would go toward keeping House libraries open...
BENEFITS Strength training and other strenuous exercises tear down muscle fiber. During periods of rest, muscles repair and rebuild themselves, getting thicker and stronger. Exercise enables the heart to pump with greater ease during times of rest...