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Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum The museum's official site pays tribute to the city and its victims - included are resources for the abolition of nuclear weapons and Hiroshima's recovery, and educational materials for kids.
There was no such progress in other familiar trouble spots. South Africa was torn by unremitting violence as blacks demanded abolition of apartheid and whites were willing to accept only gradual change. Guerrilla wars in Central America raged unchecked, and the so-called peace process in the Middle East made...
They were charged with creating a new set of academic guidelines after last year’s review committees called for the abolition of the Core Curriculum, the centerpiece of Harvard’s educational philosophy for almost three decades.
Meeting in the Bahamas, 46 countries that are members of the British Commonwealth did impose sanctions, though British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher made sure they were much milder than originally proposed. The Commonwealth's declaration threatened stronger action--for example, the prohibition of new investment--by individual countries if Pretoria...
The landmark of Kimball's reign was a 1978 decree that opened the priesthood to blacks. In the Mormon system, which has no clergy, virtually all twelve-year-old males receive the priesthood, a prerequisite for holding any church office. After assiduous prayer, Kimball announced that he had experienced a...