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They gathered by a grave tucked into fields of yellow rape flowers high in the Himalayan foothills. There, a dozen-odd guardians of China's last free-flowing rivers unveiled a memorial to a fallen comrade, an activist who had died of a heart attack in January. But their mission had another motive. Following the ceremony, they traveled into remote regions of Yunnan province to gauge opposition to a spate of new dam projects and offer assistance to vulnerable peasants trying to stop them from being built. This wasn't a secret trip. Plainclothes police videotaped everything. Undeterred, the outsiders...
...Reagan pored over briefing books and prepared for his first eyeball-to-eyeball summit with a leader of a nation he has made a career of denouncing, Secretary of State George Shultz flew to Moscow with National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane and a dozen-odd other U.S. officials last week to lay the final groundwork for the meeting. The American team was whisked to Osobnyak, the czarist-era mansion where Soviet diplomats often conduct business. "We always expect good results from meetings," said Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze before escorting his visitors into the white marble meeting room...
...studio's schedule is divided between work done for on- and off-campus groups and the personal projects of the dozen-odd member recording engineers. "It's a great place to produce work that is all your own and preserve it for the future," said engineer Gregor Hanuschak '02. In order to become members, budding engineers must complete a comp that consists of several training sessions on recording techniques and the technical operation of the studio and at least 20 hours of time working under the tutelage of present members. At the end of the test compers must pass...
...weekend). The intoxicated pre-frosh had been discovered only moments earlier, when some other of my friend's roommates returned from their evening out. Soon, the pre-frosh's hosts were summoned, as well as the pre-frosh who had concocted this ill-starred soiree, and a dozen-odd people had collected to try and address the situation. This is when the story becomes worrisome. The girl showed no signs of improvement in a half-hour of care and gentle attempts to revive her. From what little experience I've had with this kind of thing, it appeared that what...
...bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Britain and France, who also want to try the Libyan intelligence officers, have agreed to help. But Secretary of State Warren Christopher, in announcing the plan today, conceded that it would be tough to persuade the rest of Libya's dozen-odd European customers to scrap flourishing oil deals with the country. President Clinton, mindful of pressure by families of the 270 bombing victims, has twice asked the U.N. Security Council to add oil exports to its embargo against Libya...