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Gandhi, leaning on a lacquered bamboo staff, soon set out along the winding, dusty road. His destination: Dandi, 240 miles away, where 25 days later he would collect a few grains of salt in defiance of the British tax that forced locals to pay prices for the compound that were said to be up to 2,000% greater than its production costs. Following his lead, thousands of Indian villagers waded into the sea to extract salt themselves. Thus began Gandhi's campaign of nonviolent civil disobedience--and the beginning of the end of the British Empire. --By Amanda Bower
...cable and smoke. The dead would number 168, including 19 children. (At least six people who survived or lost loved ones have since killed themselves.) When McVeigh was executed in 2001, he remained convinced that he had punished the U.S. government for its 1993 siege of the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas...
...American forces?" He avoided the question, as if he did not quite understand what I was talking about. An aide whispered something, and Mam Rostam said he was tired and a little hungry. He swept out of the courtyard with his entourage, and the journalists outside the compound dispersed. His mood change seemed suspicious, so I decided to spend the night in my car, parked within the compound. About 15 minutes later Mam Rostam swept back in followed by a gleaming Mercedes, a Land Cruiser and another luxury vehicle, each accompanied by 10 to 15 bodyguards. The Patriotic Union...
...news last week was that a compound called TNX-901, given to patients with peanut allergy, has proved effective in ratcheting down the body's allergic responses to the legume. Patients with severe peanut allergy who were injected with the highest doses of TNX-901 could be exposed to the equivalent of nine peanuts without developing a severe reaction according to a study reported in the New England Journal of Medicine. It was conducted by a team of doctors led by researchers from the National Jewish Medical and Research Center in Denver, Colo., and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine...
...fluent in both French and Khmer, he served as the principal liaison between the French and the new regime, a job that gave him a first-hand view of the enforced evacuation of the city. One of his principal duties was to help man the entrance to the French compound, the eponymous gate, where Cambodians frantically sought refuge from the bloody maelstrom raging outside...