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5 Aug 2013, 9:01 pm
Although there are cases in which a friend or relative volunteers to act as a surrogate, the vast majority of surrogates are paid—often upwards of $20,000—in addition to fees that are separately paid to brokers, lawyers, and medical providers. [read post]
14 Jul 2023, 3:33 pm
The recent slaughter of pilot whales witnessed by guests who had sailed aboard the Ambition operated by Ambassador Cruise line earlier this week to the port capital of Torshavn in the Faroe Islands reminded me of the first time I became aware of this repulsive activity. [read post]
7 Feb 2019, 9:01 pm
The sponsor of the fishing tournament where Oakley allegedly licked the city manager said she had licked his face and the faces of volunteers at other fishing tournaments. [read post]
23 Nov 2009, 2:53 pm
Yet there is a gnawing sense that by choosing to stake a private financial claim of this magnitude â€" in a triple play where he was publicly working for the Kurds, and yet privately working for the DNO oil company and himself â€" this savvy former diplomat could prejudice America’s role as a credible broker in diplomacy and reconstruction. [read post]
2 May 2024, 5:59 am
They also manage programs for owner relinquishment, special needs pets, stray intake, and volunteer opportunities. [read post]
2 Jun 2011, 10:15 pm
I’ve written several times about Scott Horton’s award-winning Harper’s magazine article declaring that it’s ”most likely” that the three Guantanamo detainees who hanged themselves in June 2006 actually died at an interrogation site. [read post]
16 Mar 2016, 4:29 pm
His mother volunteered in the community; his father ran a small business out of their home. [read post]
5 Jun 2024, 6:05 am
The new dystopian Hollywood film, Civil War, has raised the specter of devastating violent conflict once again engulfing America. [read post]
13 Jun 2011, 2:59 am
Recent conversations with two young women who work as concierges in a chichi resort in the heavily Asian Vancouver suburb of Richmond illustrated the differences.When asked last month for directions to a local fishmonger who might be selling freshly caught shark fin, one woman helpfully volunteered: "Not any more.''She said shark fin "is very hard to find now. [read post]
19 Aug 2010, 10:57 am
” While insisting that, “Assuring the public of the safety of seafood landed in the Gulf is essential to our industry,” he volunteered that “the toxins in the dispersants were likely to have direct adverse impacts on both vertebrate and invertebrate marine life and, further, that the dispersal of oil throughout the water column would increase, rather than mitigate, the harmful environmental effects of the oil spill on marine life. [read post]
15 May 2012, 3:00 am
History is fascinating, but I’m not a historian. [read post]
18 May 2022, 4:32 am
These forces likely consist of both individual volunteers and National Guard units, which are routinely dedicated to securing the rule of Chechen Republic Head, Ramadan Kadyrov. [read post]
19 Aug 2010, 10:57 am
” While insisting that, “Assuring the public of the safety of seafood landed in the Gulf is essential to our industry,” he volunteered that “the toxins in the dispersants were likely to have direct adverse impacts on both vertebrate and invertebrate marine life and, further, that the dispersal of oil throughout the water column would increase, rather than mitigate, the harmful environmental effects of the oil spill on marine life. [read post]
26 Mar 2021, 1:01 am
Some recent law school graduates volunteered to represent us squatters for a small fee, and we and the other squatters lived there for five years before being evicted. [read post]
11 Sep 2011, 9:59 pm
The volunteer receptionist, a frail elderly lady with hair a shade of blue normally associated with county fair cotton candy, wept inconsolably until we found a supervisor and had her ushered carefully home. [read post]
8 Mar 2007, 1:25 pm
In 1768, the German Enlightenment novelist Christoph Martin Wieland wrote in the first part of his Musarion that "there are certain writers who are blinded by too much light, it seems, who don't see the forest for the trees. [read post]
5 Dec 2011, 7:10 am
For posterity, this is indeed the first branch of the federal government in America’s constitutional republic, the one with “the power of the purse“, our mostly-millionaire law-makers. [read post]
4 Feb 2012, 12:02 pm
A volunteer who lived near by let me take bubble baths at her place. [read post]
5 Jun 2023, 3:46 pm
In America, Belton is most famous for a prior 1777 invention. [read post]
1 Jun 2023, 11:53 am
In America, Belton is most famous for a prior 1777 invention. [read post]
