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...islands are in fact the tail end of the Arakan Yoma mountain range. The submerged peaks cover a 1,000-km arc from Burma to Sumatra, surrounded on all sides by deep ocean. Divers and snorkelers can swim with all the usual reef crowd?butterfly fish, blue napoleons, sea anemones, snapper and brightly colored parrot fish?and also encounter larger visitors from deeper waters, like blue and sperm whales, dolphins, sharks, tuna and marine turtles. The area is a favored haunt of the endangered dugong, a cousin of the manatee, that feeds in the sea grasses of the shallow coastal...
...epic voyage, drifting down all 4,880 km of Southeast Asia's longest river. Gargan begins at the Mekong's source in the thin air of the Tibetan plateau and goes with the flow until it reaches the South China Sea. En route through China, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam?all countries nursing scars from a tumultuous and bloody century?he introduces us to a mElange of characters: yak herders, opium farmers, European backpackers, jaded aid workers, Vietnam vets?and endangered Irrawaddy dolphins. Some of those he meets seem unaffected by the horrors of the region's recent past...
...would have thought that my time on the Undergraduate Council would have left such a legacy? I am amazed to find the council’s Burma activity of yesteryear, for which I proudly take full credit, continually dredged up as an example of its past irrelevance and ineffectiveness, even six years later (Editorial, “A Step in the Wrong Direction...
...providing services to Harvard students? Basically, because Harvard students are, by and large, spoiled and overprivileged, are not in need of a parliamentary body to plan dances and concerts, and because there are more important things in the world. In fact, the council’s work on Burma was some of its most effective: due in large part to the council’s pressure on Harvard University Dining Services not to sign an exclusive contract with PepsiCo, that company pulled out of Burma in 1996— a major victory in the free Burma movement. I know this...
Finally, it’s worth noting that while Burma activism took up a good deal of my time, it took up very little of the council’s time, and the council was actually far more responsive and active in 1995-1997 than it had been in years past—I am pleased to see that universal keycard access, an issue on which I worked with some success in 1995-1996, is still progressing. What the council realized during those years, however, was that it doesn’t take much time or resources...