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Bangalore may be India's high-tech heart, but in one part of its leafy suburbs, there's a group of environmentalists trying to get back to the garden. In 2003, husband-and-wife architects Jeeth and Natasha Iype, working with Stanley George, a civil engineer, designed the Good Earth Orchard homes. Each of the 60 projected houses, now in various stages of construction, will feature slate and wood left in a natural state, without toxic waxes and finishes. Sewage will be treated in tanks that process waste without harmful chemicals. Household water will be heated by solar panels, which...
Vivek G. Ramaswamy ’07 challenged Mueller to address whether it was more pertinent “for there to be some kind of outside check” on the FBI’s role in affecting civil liberties...
...great achievement of the civil rights revolution was the dismantling of what the inheritors of Jamestown had instituted. Today a black woman fills one of the most powerful political offices after the presidency, and a black man holds serious promise of becoming the presidential candidate of the Democratic Party. Whatever the persisting problems of black Americans--many of which, like a fragile family life and the lack of inheritance, also originated in slavery--it is now incontestable that they belong to America as America belongs to them. In this, America stands far above all other multiethnic Western nations. Nonetheless...
...shell after shell was fired into Russia's highest legislative body. In the name of democracy, Russia's President had suspended, and now was bombing, his Parliament. And the West mostly went along, convinced that it was necessary to support this flawed leader because the alternatives seemed far worse. Civil war was narrowly avoided. But greatness would elude Yeltsin ever after...
...comprehensive selection of artifacts from Kelso's digs is on display in a $4.9 million facility known as the Archaearium that opened at Historic Jamestowne last May. His team is now excavating beneath the Civil War--era earthen fort that rises in the middle of James Fort in search of the colony's earliest church--just in time for Jamestown's 400th-birthday celebration...