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...European Union to Sudan concluded that the killings fell short of genocide, which is defined by the convention as a deliberate attempt to kill or seriously hurt a group of people "to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part." The U.N.'s representative to Sudan, Jan Pronk, has also stopped short of calling it genocide. "Atrocities, very bad things, killings, rape, burning of villages have taken place," Pronk told a press conference in Khartoum last week. Some human-rights advocates are concerned that if the U.S. fails to intervene after Powell characterized the conflict as genocide...
...JAN STANFIELD of Riverside, Calif., has been an avid bread baker for 20 years, but it was only eight months ago that the 59-year-old psychotherapist found true breadbaking bliss in the rounded form of her first handcrafted hearth bread. Next came a ciabatta--a traditional Italian loaf with a crisp crust and a remarkably chewy, holey interior. Holey or perhaps holy! One bite brought Stanfield to ecstasy: "I thought I was going to either pass out or burst into tears," she says. Stanfield has fallen hard for the time-honored craft of making artisanal breads--European-style yeast...
...after eighth grade. Astonishingly, that's almost as high as the 5.2% of nongifted kids who dropped out. Untold numbers of other highly intelligent kids stay in school but tune out. "When we ask exceptional children about their main obstacle, they almost always say it's their school," says Jan Davidson, a co-author of the new book Genius Denied: How to Stop Wasting Our Brightest Young Minds. "Their school makes them put in seat time, and they can't learn at their own ability level...
...Providence Journal-Bulletin article dated Jan. 25, 1999, Saltzman wrote that the victim’s relatives feared Barrett would get “preferential treatment” from a jury due to the disparity in economic status and education between the victim and the defendant...
...Rome,” a city which legend said would never be conquered, but that they would come within a hairs breadth of conquering Europe itself. Few realize how close the Turks came to breaking into the very heart of Europe. If it was not for the arrival of Jan Sobieski and his Polish cavalry history would have taken a very different turn. The Turkish menace, which ultimately was defeated before the walls of Vienna at a cost of thousands of lives, could have been crushed at far less cost had the West acted earlier...