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...Bogert spoke to The Crimson from a conference in Dublin that brought together 110 nations to sign a treaty to ban cluster munitions, a weapon that explodes in the air and disperses a number of “bomblettes” over a wide area. She said the treaty had given her hope for progress on human rights in the coming century. But she said human rights activists are not as blindly optimistic as some people believe...
...cluster of factors is depleting the world's supply of grains. In Europe, the U.S. and Asia, more farmers are growing crops, especially corn, not as food but for conversion into biofuel. Meanwhile, demand for food is surging in China and India, where hundreds of millions of increasingly prosperous people are eating more. Though the demand in these countries is for less rice and more meat and fish, this increases the consumption of grain in the form of feed: it takes 7-15 kg of grain to produce a kilogram of meat. Record-high oil prices and escalating freight costs...
...certainly possible that Kelly's posture will only bolster his street cred. During a break in the case on Tuesday afternoon, a cluster of young women screamed when Kelly was led by his beefy bodyguards out of the courtroom. "Everybody deserves their day in court, and I'm going to be here until they leave the Kells alone," Sierra Horne, 19, said as she was pushed into a descending elevator by a sheriff's deputy after screaming too loudly at Kelly. So deep is Horne's loyalty, she claims to have skipped two days of school just to attend...
...long an academic underperformer, will come under new management in just a few weeks. After a protracted battle, L.A. Unified School District's board voted in the fall to turn it over to Green Dot Public Schools, a private non-profit that plans to turn the campus into a cluster of charter schools. Come July 1, many of Locke's teachers will be out of work. And students, worried about new policies like required uniforms, wonder whether there will still be a football team or a school band...
...seedbed for little magazines, the American soil is fertile but thinly spread," wrote TIME almost 60 years ago to the day. "Last week a cluster of new ones bravely poked their heads above ground. The most promising was Hudson Review, edited by three young Princeton alumni." Well, ahem, we know how to call it. THE HUDSON REVIEW puts out its 60th-anniversary edition this month, celebrating its longevity with a concert at the Guggenheim Museum and a book, Writes of Passage. The Review, which promised at its inception not to "open its pages to those whose only merits...