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...response. And the results may be the best indicator the world will get about what to expect elsewhere. The Arctic will show the earliest and most severe signs of global warming--with Canadian calculations predicting a rise in mean temperature of more than 4 degrees Celsius between the late 20th century and the mid-21st...
...Life Inside Gitmo" [March 13] reported that Mohammed al-Qahtani, the Saudi accused of being the so-called 20th hijacker on 9/11, was coerced into confessing his ties to al-Qaeda. When we obtain information from prisoners by denying them basic human rights, then we are no better than the very organizations we are fighting. Against whom will the abusive interrogation techniques be used next--hardened criminals, drug dealers and political activists...
...DIED. JADE SNOW WONG, 84, author and ceramicist whose 1950 memoir of her immigrant childhood, Fifth Chinese Daughter, painted a vivid picture of San Francisco's Chinatown in the early 20th century; in San Francisco. Wong wrote the book in her mid-20s after abandoning plans to become a social worker, opting instead to pursue her talent for pottery, which she later described as a means of making herself "free of Chinese culture's relentless subjugation of women...
...asked me if we would be able to sell,” he was able to give them the nod. The Case Estates was the property of the two Case sisters, Marian and Louisa, and much of it was acquired by Marian in the early decades of the 20th century. They donated their estate—202 acres in total—to the Arboretum in the 1940s. Some of the land has already been sold by the University to the town in the intervening years, or has been claimed by the U.S. government for municipal purposes. Kathleen McCahan, chair...
...president of the Black Students Association (BSA), Nneka C. Eze ’07, pointed out that the 300 members of her group span not just several countries—but entire continents.“Whether they are from Africa, from the Caribbean, second generation, 10th, 20th generation...there is such variation within the students in BSA,” she said.And nearly 20 members of the BSA identify as white, according to the group’s former president, Lawrence E. Adjah ’06.As leader of the BSA for a year starting in the spring...