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Lecture IV: Magneto-Optical Trapping ofMetastable Helium: The (Good and Bad) Role ofCollisions--by Alain Aspect, Morris LoebLecturer on Physics, Institut d'Optique Theoriqueet Apliquee. Jefferson Hall, Room...
...INCIDENT AT Thomas Jefferson was not just "one more illustration of the horrors of Black urban poverty," as so many white liberal columnist will undoubtedly term it over the course of the next few weeks (if they choose to write about it at all). Rather, it was an outrageous and tremendously upsetting event bred from a system of institutionalized and governmental imprisonment and oppression...
Perhaps the most striking thing about East New York is its enclosed, suffocating feeling. Most of the people live in the city's housing projects--brown brick buildings with narrow, dimly-lit corridors and miniature apartments. The schools, such as Thomas Jefferson High, have thick steel mesh spread across each broken window, and iron fences topped with masses of razor wire which surround the school and its playground...
Some of these school--unlike Thomas Jefferson--force their students to march through metal detectors in the beginning of each school...
That's why it's so discouraging to watch the Democratic candidates squabble and bicker when they could be changing the way things work in this country. Mayor David Dinkins was on his way to Thomas Jefferson to visit what it termed one of the most violent high schools in New York when the shooting took place. What should have been an easy media sound-bite ended up as Dinkins trying to comfort an auditorium of terrorized students...