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Memorial Hall is owned by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, but two years ago management of the building was transferred to HRE, the real estate arm of the University...
...year ago, during the first presidential candidates' debate, Bush had said, "I want to be the one to banish chemical and biological weapons from the face of the earth." The United States has in the past accused the Soviets of developing biological weapons...
LaFontaine said the bill stayed bottled up in the committee two years ago and never made it to the Senate floor for a vote...
Returning Indian remains to the proper heirs is not always easy. What contemporary group, asks David Hurst Thomas of New York City's American Museum of Natural History, can speak for a tribe that no longer exists? "If we find things from 10,000 years ago," he says, "it becomes tricky." Another potential problem: misidentified remains of one tribe might be returned to descendants of a group that was historically its mortal enemy. Beyond that, scholars note, tribes varied widely in their treatment of the dead; for some, the spirit left the remains, while for others, the spirit is still...
When the College Board released its annual cost survey showing that private school tuitions would rise an average of 9% this fall, Kellie Kenner raced for her calculator. Since the 20-year-old junior entered Emory University two years ago, her total bill, including tuition, has jumped from $13,900 to $16,100, an increase of almost 16%. Despite a patchwork quilt of aid that includes scholarships, loans and an on-campus job, Kenner's father, a train conductor, must now pay $6,000 out of pocket to send his daughter to school this year -- $2,000 more than...