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...your fault. You should talk less, and think before you open your mouth. Why are you so stupid? Can you tell me that? No! Then you're even more stupid than I thought you were." Sensing it's only a matter of time before this torrent of expletives, issuing from the mouths of female as much as male players, is directed towards me, I deem it judicious to make my exit; and leave well before the bar closes - at 8 a.m. on a Sunday. Another week, another murder spree, and then it's time to return to planning for making...
...fewer than nine suicides per 100,000 people. Dr. Hynek Pikhart, a professor of statistics and epidemiology at University College, London, estimates the chance of a community Gnosall's size enduring six suicides in a single year to be less than 0.001%. Perhaps the most unsettling aspect of this torrent of disaster is that nobody can pinpoint its root cause. "There are no demographic differences between Gnosall and the rest of England" that would explain the anomaly, Pikhart notes. "If anything, it is above average in terms of employment and other social indicators...
...lack of understanding and agreement about what universities ought to do and be. Universities are curious institutions with varied purposes that they have neither clearly articulated nor adequately justified. Resulting public confusion, at a time when higher education has come to seem an indispensable social resource, has produced a torrent of demands for greater “accountability” from colleges and universities...
...avoid the pirate-infested Straits of Malacca through which roughly half of its imported oil now passes. And with China needing somewhere to park its ballooning foreign-exchange reserves, the riverfront capitals of Phnom Penh and Vientiane now gleam with Chinese-built roads, buildings and other infrastructure. The torrent of investment will likely grow even greater next year when Chinese construction workers finish building a 1,100-mile (1,800-km) Yunnan-Bangkok highway that parallels a section of the Mekong. "Chinese are natural businessmen," says Liu Jingchun, a Chinese boat captain who transports goods between Yunnan and northern Thailand...
...family members. The nursing home sat on ground that did not sustain heavy flooding during Betsy, the 1965 hurricane that swamped much of St. Bernard Parish, and in fact appeared to have escaped Katrina's fury moments after the storm passed - until breached and overtopped levees sent a torrent of water through the parish...