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...family, Scout leaders, friends, school and nation," states the Handbook. "But what if some friends take your sister's bike? They strip it and sell the parts. Where does your loyalty lie?" In the age of rip-off and radical capitalism, such a dilemma is not uncommon. In reply, the Handbook, unfortunately, takes the tone of Pollyanna rather than the police blotter. It counsels, "Just remember to look at both sides. Listen carefully to the arguments and then do what you believe to be right...
...seat on the convention floor. For that reason alone, few young, black or poor delegates have ever attended Republican Conventions. In addition, some states hold their caucuses in virtual secrecy, while in others delegates choose their own alternates, so that husband-wife and father-son delegate pairings are not uncommon...
...uncommon blue-Italian blue, insist the proud Münchner-canopies the 890-acre expanse of wood, trail, meadow and stream known as the Englischer Garten. From their benches, the forgotten aged stare across the little lake into the sun or watch in silence the absurd parade of ducks and drakes or the wheeling Frisbees in the sky. Lazing in a field are clusters of young longhairs, some of them students, some wanderers from other nations. They all speak the same language: guitar and hash. Elector Karl Theodor designed this park in 1789. It was not Karl Theodor who inscribed...
Such critical accidents are not uncommon. "Trauma"-which in medical parlance includes injuries from all accidents-trails only heart disease and cancer as the nation's leading killer, and claims more than 100,000 American lives a year. However, Barr was more fortunate than most accident victims: he lived in Illinois. Borrowing from the speedy evacuation and emergency medical systems developed by the armed forces in Viet Nam, Illinois has established a unique, statewide trauma-care system to treat accident victims. It is in effect a highly coordinated system of communication and facilities that can mobilize the whole state...
...debilitating growth of tuberculosis often does the trick. The only catch is that a medical examination is required for three years in a row before a permanent medical exemption is granted-all of which can cost up to 500,000 piasters ($1,200). For a time it was not uncommon for boys to chop off the first two fingers of their gun hand; that practice ended when the military decided to conscript the fingerless youths for porters. Today, some desperate draftees dig a shallow hole, toss in a fragmentation grenade, and cover the hole with a foot. If done properly...