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...eating exotic animals and using them for ancient medicines are practices deeply rooted in Chinese culture. There have been fleeting signs of change. In June, the soon-to-open Hong Kong Disneyland took shark's fin soup off the menu following public protests over the damage that widespread consumption of the popular Chinese dish was doing to global shark populations. During the 2003 SARS crisis, wildlife activists dared to hope?briefly?that real change was possible. Scientists concluded that SARS had passed from wild civet cats to humans, most likely because the civets are a popular winter dish in China...
...tears that water the drought," while Jal rides the percussion of Aiwa with the rap, "If you got love, you got the victory." Together on Ya Salam, they greet Sudan's fragile new peace as a time to draw breath. Sung in the many tongues of Africa, wedding ancient rhythms to modern youthful optimism, Ceasefire is a reminder that peace needs open ears as well as open wallets. It helps that it's also one of the freshest and funkiest albums around...
...Harvard’s included—which, with a bit of help from the Bears’ out-of-conference opponents, surrendered 1,263 yards and 17 touchdowns to the 6’2, 220-lb. rusher in 2004. Those totals were good enough for second in the Ancient Eight, behind only the Crimson’s Clifton Dawson...
...courses at Harvard focus on the West. Social Studies 10, Historical Studies A-12, English 10a (and 10b), Ec 10, and Justice, to name a few, stick only to the intellectual, political, historical, and economic achievements of Eurasia and North America (plus the Near East and North Africa during ancient times...
...fast. These are the same people who rant that these courses unfairly privilege Western values. At least Western civ courses focus on a specific culture within defined boudaries, instead of focusing, like many global civ courses purport to do, on the boundaries where civilizations intersect. As McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History Steven E. Ozment writes in the journal Public Interest, Although interesting and certainly au courant, a history that preoccupies itself primarily with the boundaries of civilizations runs a risk of becoming marginal history...