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...birth to many new states whose borders had been drawn for the convenience of colonial administrators and enclosed peoples who had never got along with each other. Jockeying among varied ethnic-religious groups for pieces of the old imperial turf has been igniting secessionist wars ever since. Possibly the deadliest one within the past decade has been the insurrection of Hindu Tamil groups against the Buddhist Sinhalese in Sri Lanka. The Washington-based Carnegie Endowment for International Peace counts, among many others, six separate conflicts in India and three each in Burma and Indonesia in which guerrilla groups are seeking...
...disabled residents, was one more reminder of how decrepit the city's housing stock has become. Detroit has averaged one new housing start annually for the past 17 years, among the lowest building rates in the nation. But last week, in a counterpoint to the sorrow of the deadliest fire in nearly 50 years, the city also offered a sign of hope. As the choir of gospel singers sang and the mayor beamed, Detroit opened its first new inner-city housing development in 30 years...
...Harvard men's basketball elected versatile junior Tyler Rullman captain for the 1993 season Friday at the annual team banquet. Rullman, who played both forward and guard this season, is the team's deadliest outside shooter, tallying a team-high 37 three-pointers last season...
Venezuela is a more complicated case. It is one of the oldest democracies in Latin America. It is also, not coincidentally, one of the most prosperous nations in the region. While Peru is cursed with the deadliest of exports, cocaine, Venezuela is blessed with vast petroleum reserves...
There was more grim news last week about the ozone layer, which wards off the sun's deadliest radiation. A U.N. advisory panel reported that serious atmospheric ozone depletion has spread from the polar regions to temperate climes -- and is worse than anyone thought. In the past decade the amount of ozone over the continental U.S. has decreased between 4% and 8%. Scientists knew that man-made chlorofluorocarbons caused some ozone loss in the temperate zones during winter and early spring, but now there also seem to be "significant" decreases in summer when people expose the most skin...