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Last spring, Crimson editors met extensively with campus minority representatives about racial tension on campus--about what was causing it and how to stop it. The following changes and enhancements are the by-product of what we learned...
...activism has sparked a new debate about sexuality in general. Are people essentially either straight or gay, with bisexuality being merely the unnatural by-product of confusion and repression among some homosexuals? Or is bisexuality a third distinct orientation? Is sexuality governed by biology or culture? Is it fixed, an identity that is set early and endures through life? Or is it fluid, shifting with time and temptation...
More than 2 million former Yugoslavs have been forced to flee for their lives in this war. They were uprooted by the atavistic policy of "ethnic cleansing" on conquered territory, enforced most fiercely by the Serbs but also by Croats and Muslims. Refugees are only a by-product in most wars. In this one they are the calculated objective. (See related stories beginning on page...
Most young gang bangers don't even think about getting out. The money and security are too good and the alternatives too few. The gang is a surrogate family and the only source of approval, however convoluted, that they'll ever know. Pathetically, all the bloodshed is merely a by-product of an utterly misguided and frantic inner-city search for respect. "What other world do these kids know?" asks George Knox, director of the Gang Crime Research Center at Chicago State University...
When Reid's dispute with the hospital hit the Oak Ridge newspapers this year, the public response was strangely muted. Residents long ago learned to live with radioactivity and risk. This, after all, is one of the birthplaces of the Bomb, a town whose very existence was a by-product of nuclear reactions. The federal complex is still the largest employer of the population of 30,000. Even the mayor is a physicist, and newspapers report levels of background radiation each week. But decades of studies have failed to find any gross health problems. Says Oak Ridge physicist Chester Richmond...