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...supported the war, after following Middle East affairs for more than 20 years, because my abhorrence of Saddam Hussein's brutal regime far exceeded any disquiet I felt about the plotting of the Bush Administration's neoconservatives. Maybe we liberals need to "blink" less and reflect more. David Smith Bournemouth, England The Foxhunting Ban In Verbatim, you quoted Nick Onslow, spokesman for the East Kent Hunt, about the last legal foxhunt before Britain's ban on hunting with dogs took effect [Feb. 28]. Onslow said, "It's a very emotional day. There are people who are in distress, but underlying...
...like to think of our schools as havens of innocence, free spaces in which children can explore a world untouched by harsh reality. But across Europe these days, more and more of those explorations are being closely monitored. At the Portchester School in Bournemouth, a town with one of the lowest income levels in Britain, 986 boys in uniforms and ties pass nine closed-circuit lenses in the corridors as they move between classes. Three exterior cameras mounted on 5-m poles swivel above the school's parking lot and playing fields. School facilities manager John Floyd watches the screens...
...thought of packing up and setting off is literally scary," says a woman who has lived among all sorts of dangerous beasties. "But when you're actually on the road, it's just a way of life, like a gypsy, I suppose." She gets to her home in Bournemouth "three days in between trips here, and four days there, and occasionally as long as three weeks. That's maximum." Her other home is in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, but that one is filled with students. When she visits her beloved Gombe National Park, where her chimps live, she is usually...
DIED. SIR FRED HOYLE, 86, eminent but irascible astronomer who coined the term Big Bang theory to distinguish it, derisively, from his own belief that the universe was infinite in time and space; in Bournemouth, England. A popular science-fiction novelist (The Black Cloud, 1957) and former BBC radio broadcaster, Hoyle was best known for his monumental 1957 paper on the origins of elements, for which--to his annoyance--he was passed over for a Nobel Prize...
...Biko. DIED. FRED HOYLE, 86, controversial astrophysicist who in the 1940s coined the term "big bang" to deride the theory that an explosion formed the origin of the universe, a concept now widely accepted over his "steady state" theory, which maintains the universe has no beginning or end; in Bournemouth, England. DIED. OSCAR JANIGER, 83, psychiatrist whose experiences on LSD inspired him to become one of the first Americans to study psychedelic drugs in the 1950s and early '60s; in Torrance, California. To examine the link between LSD and creativity he tested the drug on 1,000 volunteers, including Aldous...