Word: tolls
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...potent Baathist resistance fueled by the city's large number of unemployed soldiers. This stew of local and outside insurgents is stepping up attacks on American and Iraqi security forces - and anyone suspected of collaborating with them. Week after week, car bombings, improvised explosives and shootings take a steady toll of Iraqi National Guard and U.S. personnel...
...human poll plague that befell Penn last season has already taken its toll on the Crimson. No matter what Harvard does, there’s a ceiling on how high it can rise in the estimation of Sports Network and ESPN Coaches’ Poll voters. Last year, the Quakers went 10-0, but could only rise as high as eighth with one week to go in the season. Penn actually fell to 12th in the final poll, because, presumably, its 59-7 win over Cornell in a meaningless game wasn’t convincing enough. And Penn began...
...nations in the region have minimal stocks of antiviral drugs and no pandemic action plan. H5N1 vaccine, still in development, would not arrive in time to make a difference. If a pandemic occurred tomorrow, says Stohr, Asia would be "playing it by ear," politically improvising even as the death toll rose. "One of the most difficult things to explain to the public after a pandemic would be why we weren't prepared, because there have been enough warnings," he adds...
There are such things as just wars or wars that somehow have a net benefit to the world. That is beyond a doubt. The problem is that the cavalier attitudes of the current U.S. administration to the planning, costs and human toll of this conflict may be indicative of an elite forming which has no real appreciation of what a war is. Not giving the educated elite at this school a chance to see war for what it is, is to bury the nation’s head in the sand. If we really want to make this place...
...wonder, if just a little, whether a particular search might come back to haunt you, or who might know that you ate dinner at Adams in violation of interhouse restrictions. And maybe, for now, it pays for the unfaithful among you to wait the extra 3 minutes at the toll booth on the Mass Pike, particularly when driving down to New Haven every weekend to visit that girl you met at the Yale Game...