Word: washings
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...basketball is flat and he pumps it up, he gets no credit because it's not something that needed to get done in the wife's eyes. But from the man's perspective, it's just as important as picking up an article of clothing or doing the wash...
...marijuana, valued at $25,000, hidden inside a teenage girl's backpack. Prosecutors allege that the minor, 16, was getting paid $300 a trip to work as a drug mule for smugglers moving marijuana into the U.S. from Canada. The teen's home, in Point Roberts, Wash., borders British Columbia in an area with relatively light border patrol, which would have made it easy for her to get the drugs from Canada before getting...
Expelled from school and charged with possessing marijuana with intent to deliver, the girl has a hearing scheduled for Aug. 23 in Bellingham, Wash. Deputy prosecutor Thomas Verge has said he will probably ask for an exceptionally long sentence that would put the teen behind bars until her 21st birthday. The controversy has upset the community. "She was a wonderful young girl," says her principal, Dan Newell. "I wouldn't have ever thought that if anyone was going to haul marijuana across the border, it would be this lady...
RELEASED. MARY KAY LETOURNEAU, 42, former sixth-grade teacher convicted of child rape for her ongoing sexual relationship with then 12-year-old Vili Fualaau; after serving more than seven years in state prison; in Gig Harbor, Wash. LeTourneau and Fualaau, now 21, will be allowed to see each other now that the judge in the case has rescinded a court order that barred them from doing...
...also have to be vigilant about protecting yourself from infection. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 2 million patients a year acquire infections while in the hospital, many of them carried on the unwashed hands of health-care workers. Although hand washing significantly reduces infection rates, the CDC notes that less than half of hospital personnel do this as they move from patient to patient. To make sure you're not handed an infection, remind all staff members (your doctor as well) to wash their hands before they touch you. "Visitors should also wash their hands...