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Problems resulting from student drinking on campus extend beyond disruptions to study time and unclean bathrooms...

Author: By Joseph P. Flood and F. REYNOLDS Mcpherson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Students Binge Less, But Hurt More By Others' Drinking | 2/9/2001 | See Source »

...That's how I feel when I contemplate, on the one hand, the unclean, unsatisfactory records of Gale Norton and John Ashcroft, and on the other hand, the baying politburo of correctness (NOW and the People for the American Way, and all the rest) that is arrayed against Norton and Ashcroft, ready to throw acid in their faces. What a collection altogether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Profiles in Discouragement | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

...what will go wrong. Certainly, quality of care and treatment play a huge role here." What that means is that even when complications ensue, with the right medical care, lives can be saved. But in Rwanda, where the causes of infection run the gamut from dirty swaddling cloth to unclean razors used to cut umbilical cords, lack of even the most rudimentary measures means that such commonplace complications as pre-eclampsia or sepsis can turn fatal. "Our resources are so limited, we can't put in an IV just in case there is hemorrhaging," says Silas Ruberandinda, director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rwandan Sorrow | 4/17/2000 | See Source »

...could only herd the animals, or at best raise them for dairy products. But that doesn't excuse baseless assumptions. It's always good to analyze the source of one's sense of repulsion: as a meat-eater, is it justifiable that I look down on other meats as unclean, or is it just received wisdom...

Author: By Daryl Sng, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Endpaper: Veins in My Teeth | 4/6/2000 | See Source »

...eating offal beyond their ken, beyond their realm of comprehension. I call this the 'how could you eat those parts?' school of thought: some people seem to take it as a God-given fact that anyone who eats anything that looks like the original animal or comes from an 'unclean' part is committing an abomination. Far be it from me to dictate what anyone should eat; still, if I'm willing to accept that some people eat foods which I wouldn't touch with a spoon (hello, broccoli!) and don't consider them filthy people, I don't think...

Author: By Daryl Sng, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Endpaper: Veins in My Teeth | 4/6/2000 | See Source »

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