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...because of a lack of funds. Gale covered landmark events like the funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr., but also local violence, including the gruesome murder of Sammy Young, Jr., who was shot in the head for trying to use a “Whites Only” toilet...
...camera, it was glowing. I mean, it had the right impact. Poor old left couldn't use it at all. They had all kind of things planned, they'd spent a lot of money. It made me feel kind of good that all those plans went down the toilet...
...Hocke and his family were woken by the wind battering their hillside timber-and-fibro home. They sat together in the lounge room, hoping the worst had passed, but by 5 a.m. the house had begun to vibrate with alarming regularity. When 18-year-old Nikita went to the toilet she found she couldn't sit down because the seat was bucking so badly. The glass doors on the veranda were bowing inward; Karl tried to calm his 13-year-old son Aden, while his wife Jenny put down towels to stop the sideways rain from entering the house...
...which all blame could be neatly sidestepped," writes Shah of the jinns. "Any blunder - from chopping down the wrong tree to setting fire to the lawn mower - could be instantly brushed aside." So Shah learned to deal with jinns the Moroccan way, sprinkling drops of his blood in the toilet, burying chunks of meat in the garden and, when the usual remedies failed, hiring 24 drum-banging exorcists, led by a hash-smoking pimp in a gold turban, for a two-day expulsion ritual. Unhappily, it involved slaughtering Ariane's pet goat and sprinkling its blood in every room...
...reasons are varied. The relative strength and endurance of women is one concern. So is personal hygiene—in a combat situation, women who are menstruating may not have access to appropriate sanitationAccommodating women on the front lines would also require significant infrastructure investments, like creating separate toilet and sleeping facilities for women. Finally, Frost says, some people outside the military worry that if combat units are integrated, men and women may focus on each other—not on their mission. Although people in the military know this would not be an issue, Frost says, societal biases still...