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...that sense they were seekers, but in the main they were hard-working, functioning individuals who had lives that were ordinary in most senses. They had a need to join an organization where they were doing something meaningful. Keep in mind that this was in the post-civil rights and post-Vietnam eras, and a lot of young people, in particular, and older ones, too, were looking for some outlet for their desire to do things for their fellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: A Jonestown Survivor Remembers | 11/18/2008 | See Source »

...rare interdisciplinary panel, Faust lent her Civil War history expertise and Vendler provided a literary perspective on the poem...

Author: By Noah S. Rayman and Erica A. Sheftman, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Composer Talks Music with Panel | 11/18/2008 | See Source »

This inconvenience is slowly turning into a legitimate danger; about 27.1 percent of the nation’s 590,750 bridges are rated by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) to be either “functionally obsolete” or “structurally deficient.” The rating of “structurally deficient” is the same rating that was given to the I-35W Bridge that collapsed into the Mississippi River in Minnesota in 2007, and while not every bridge receiving that rating is in danger of imminent structural failure, the large number...

Author: By Dana A. Stern | Title: Rebuild from the Roads Up | 11/18/2008 | See Source »

Sinduhije, along with the 36 other founding members of the Movement for Security and Democracy—a new opposition party sympathetic to both the Hutu and Tutsi citizens who live in the country plagued by civil war and ethnic violence—was arrested on Nov. 3 for criticizing the president in a document found in his home, according to the global organization Human Rights Watch...

Author: By Marianna N Tishchenko, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sinduhije Held in Burundi | 11/18/2008 | See Source »

...pictures of how Obama's election energized the heart of the civil rights movement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Obama Application | 11/18/2008 | See Source »

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