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...idle: though Singapore officials profess shock at the attention his case has drawn, they know Americans care deeply about the many sides of this issue. Does a teenager convicted of spraying cars with easily removable paint deserve half a dozen powerful strokes on the buttocks with a sopping-wet bamboo staff? At what point does swift, sure punishment become torture? By what moral authority can America, with its high rates of lawlessness and license, preach to a safe society about human rights? Isn't the shipshape and affluent little city-state molded by Lee Kuan Yew a model of civic...
...Singapore an American teenager who pleaded guilty to vandalizing cars and was fined and sentenced to six strokes of a split-bamboo cane and four months in prison, lost his appeal for clemency. President Clinton has urged Singapore to reconsider the penalty...
...holes. One problem: if advanced tools were H. erectus' ticket out of Africa, why are they not found everywhere the travelers went? Alan Thorne, of the Australian National University in Canberra, suggests that the Asian H. erectus built advanced tools from something less durable than stone. "Tools made from bamboo," he observes, "are in many ways superior to stone tools, and more versatile." And bamboo, unlike stone, leaves no trace after a million years...
Other house specialties include Currier's bamboo shoots, which grow only in the quad's northern climate. Kirkland gets jalapeno peppers; Leverett gets baby corn. Adams, Lowell and Quincy salad bars offer beets. Only Lowell offers lemon pepper vinaigrette...
They already make up disproportionately large shares of university classes, a development that has stuck a bamboo pole into the affirmative-action machinery. Fully 41% of the entering freshman class at UCLA this autumn consists of students of Asian descent. At Berkeley they total 33.6% of enrollments, which has prompted calls for an admissions policy limiting their numbers. Not all rivals for the fruits of education are convinced that such an invidious system would be fair play. Some black intellectuals who have a stronger faith in self-reliance have argued that competing minorities would be better off raising their...