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Such outsider viewpoints -- from new Americans and even Native Americans -- can influence others to see the world in a different light. To dramatize how the forces that ravaged the buffalo still exist, Native American sculptor Bob Haozous constructed 100 steel buffalo, then videotaped art-gallery patrons fighting to buy the pieces before they were sold out. Korean-American Nam June Paik, whose influential multimedia artworks incorporate TVs and computers, says he was talking about the information superhighway in his own work long before it became a catchword. And architect Maya Ying Lin, the daughter of Chinese immigrants, designed the black...
...historian Wittke, "has been the Viking of the Western prairie country." In the mid-19th century, American newspapers carried accounts of immigrant Swedes disembarking en masse from cargo ships and marching -- often with their country's flag carried aloft -- to railway depots where trains would take them upriver to Buffalo, along the Erie Canal and thence to the prairie country of the upper Mississippi valley. "What a glorious new Scandinavia might not Minnesota become!" wrote Frederika Bremer in 1853, and she was right. Today about 400 place names in Minnesota are of Scandinavian origin...
EDUCATION: Last of the Buffalo...
More and more, the courts are being prodded to legitimize a sea change in societal norms that legislators have refused to recognize. One day after the Steffan decision, a New York court ordered the state university's law school in Buffalo to halt campus interviews by military recruiters, because, said Judge Diane Lebedeff, "there is no dispute the military currently engages in sexual-orientation discrimination in its employment practices." With two such clear strikes against the Pentagon's practices, it is only a matter of time before the Supreme Court takes up the issue...
...could such satanic rituals be that commonplace, let alone exist at all? In 1990, a group of researchers at the State University of New York at Buffalo conducted a nationwide sample of clinical psychologists, asking them if they had encountered claims of ritual abuse. Some 800 of the psychologists, about a third of the sample, had treated at least one case...