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Gold mining in Guyana inflicts “severe environmental, health, and social damage on the areas and people near mining operations,” according to a Harvard Law School report released this week. The situation in Guyana reflects a broader global concern, said Bonnie L. Docherty, a clinical instructor at the Law School who helped produce the report. “It’s a classic example of the linkage between environmental damage and human rights abuses,” she said, citing the indigenous Guyanese population’s dependence on local rivers for food, water...
March 1 11:40 a.m.—Officers were dispatched in response to a report of an individual shouting and asking strange questions in the University Health Services Dental Clinic. Officers arrived, located the individual, and conducted a field interview. The individual was checked for wants/warrants with negative results and sent on their way with a trespass warning...
...S.R.D., alas, the recovery that neuroscientists had deemed impossible was also relatively short-lived. A few months ago, she died in a traffic accident--while taking her blind 9-year-old daughter to an eye clinic...
Certainly not a crisis pregnancy center, she adds, and her voice takes on a tighter edge. Two days ago, she had a woman come into the clinic who was a wreck. She had seen an ad for a women's health center in Charlotte, which is two hours away, and called saying she wanted an abortion. "They said sure, we can help you," Lorrie says. "They told her she could even come in after hours so she wouldn't miss a day at work. She drove all the way to Charlotte." But when she got there, she realized her mistake...
...Hutchinson, senior pastor of Trinity Presbyterian, a theologically conservative church that she knew the lead protester attended. "I said, 'I don't think you know what this member of your congregation is doing, but it's not Christian.'" Hutchinson and some church members agreed to meet Lorrie and her clinic colleagues at the Blue Moon caf to have a conversation they thought might happen "only once in a blue moon...