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Veganism is an extreme form of vegetarianism, and though the term was coined in 1944, the concept of flesh-avoidance can be traced back to ancient Indian and eastern Mediterranean societies. Vegetarianism is first mentioned by the Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras of Samos around 500 BCE. In addition to his theorem about right triangles, Pythagoras promoted benevolence among all species, including humans. Followers of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism also advocated vegetarianism, believing that humans should not inflict pain on other animals...
Scowcroft’s talk offered a broad survey of the current foreign policy landscape and its existing issues—the political situation in middle eastern countries; the rise of China and its global influence; and the evolving Russo-U.S. relationship...
Senior co-captain Laura Peterzan and sophomore Samantha Rosekrans traveled last weekend to Penn for the ITA Women’s Eastern Regional Championship. Both competed in the singles draw and as a team in the doubles competition. Peterzan made her most successful run in the main singles draw, an opportunity of which she took full advantage. Things did not begin easily for Peterzan, as she faced Elyse Steiner of Temple in a tough three-set match in the first round. The Crimson player took the first set and had a match point in the second, but Steiner fought back...
...sent to protect. But that is what's happening to the U.N.'s biggest peacekeeping mission, the 17,000 blue helmets in the Democratic Republic of Congo (D.R.C.) known by the French acronym MONUC. On Monday, one person died when hundreds of protesters attacked the mission in the eastern Congolese city of Goma, on the border with Rwanda. The protesters say the U.N. is not doing enough to protect them from an advancing rebel army. Several U.N. compounds in the city were attacked, said U.N. spokeswoman Sylvie van den Wildenberg, who adds that at one location, MONUC soldiers fired into...
...Hundreds of thousands of Congolese have fled renewed fighting in the eastern part of the country in the past few weeks. Government forces are pitted against rebel groups that have operated in the area since crossing the border from neighboring Rwanda at the end of the genocide there in 1994. In some ways - such as how the conflict has sucked in armies from across Africa and how it has often descended into a fight over the region's plentiful natural resources - the war in Congo is immeasurably more complicated than the one in Rwanda. But in other ways...