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...year later, however, the Chinese authorities have moved with dispatch to prevent any recurrence. In the run-up to Mar. 10, the 50th anniversary of the Dalai Lama's escape from Tibet after a failed uprising, Beijing has cut off communication between Tibet-as well as areas with large ethnic Tibetan communities-and the rest of the world. (See pictures of last year's uprising in Tibet...
...neither what he believes directors have sought in the past nor what he thinks they should seek in the future. If he implies that “fresh faces” and minorities need added assistance to be cast, this is condescending. Every semester, dozens of students of all ethnic and cultural backgrounds find a home in Harvard’s theater, some having never appeared in a campus production before. To suggest that any person or particular group of people needs special consideration is insulting to their abilities and to the integrity of those constructing the casts...
...said his next step will be to analyze even more genes, hopefully one million by next year. “The more you see the more accurate the predictions will be,” Ramoni said, adding that he hoped to get enough data to build models for different ethnic groups. Deputy Director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorder and Stroke Walter J. Koroshetz said the findings were interesting, but more studies would need to be conducted to test whether they were applicable to the general population, which would indicate whether the interactions identified are universal or only pertain...
Kluger maintains that "you live longer if you go to church." The reason for this might well be that church attenders on average come from more fortunate economic groups. One also needs to know the ethnicity of any grouping selected for research. Do the 82% of black people who say they are church members live longer than people in other ethnic groups who do not go to church? Richard Westall, WALTON-ON-THAMES, ENGLAND...
...global depression is not only terrible for its economic consequences—which are pretty bad indeed—but also for its socio-political effects. When poverty, unemployment, and hunger morph into fear, nationalism, and ethnic conflict, much more than our global financial system will be tested. Through protectionism, a matter of butter can quite easily become one of guns...