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...month, when Almaraz and aides tried to pass through Larsen's Santa Cruz property - they insist it was the only route by which to reach to nearby indigenous Guarani residents to whom they were delivering land deeds - witnesses say the caravan was fired on by Larsen and his son Duston, 29. The incident was followed by two weeks of rancher roadblocks and violent protests that left 40 indigenous people injured...
...educated Duston Larsen, referring to Morales' efforts to empower Bolivia's indigenous, wrote on his MySpace page in 2007, "I used to think democracy was the best form to govern a country but ... should a larger more uneducated group of people (70%) be in charge of making decisions, running a country and voting?" The fact that Duston, in 2004, won the Mr. Bolivia beauty pageant, in the eyes of many government supporters, puts him in the company of the country's European-oriented elite. (That same year, Miss Bolivia, Gabriela Oviedo, also from the country's east, suggested Bolivia shouldn...
...hitting a homer in the bottom of the ninth against the Mets to clinch the pennant. Then, Mark Grace would homer to defeat the Texas Rangers to win the World Series. Yes, 1989, the year of the Cubbie. Players such as Mitch Webster, Mitch Williams, Paul Kilgus and Shawon Duston would become Cub legends...
...essential to direct a missile-killing system. Even before so- called fifth-generation computers are ready, the Innovative Science and Technology Office, part of the Star Wars effort, is attempting to leapfrog to sixth-generation computers powered by light beams rather than electricity. Such computers, says IST Physicist Dwight Duston, "will be much smaller, much lighter, faster and almost immune from natural and man-made radiation." Some of those features would make a sixth-generation computer valuable in commercial uses...
Another project with potential civilian application is research into particle beams -- streams of atoms or subatomic particles with great penetrating power that could theoretically kill warheads. Says Duston: "If we can improve the focusing and control the beam strength, we could use beams for nontraumatic surgery in areas (of the body) currently inaccessible to the knife...