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When my roommate fanned the pages of the copy of 501 Portuguese Verbs she had bought from someone in New Jersey through Half.com, a folded piece of notebook paper floated to the floor. It was a letter, written in Portuguese, to the previous owner of the book...
Zahr, an Arab-American from New Jersey, started attending RUS meetings after studying gender, feminist and queer theories. He also devoted two summers to researching the politics of the body and Middle Eastern sexuality...
...from enslavement as a child in Africa, transport to America, and service in the Revolutionary War, to manumission and the struggle to survive as a freeman. Most mysterious of all is "Itaniko," the pseudonymous black poet of 1802 who identifies himself only as "A Person Confined in the [New Jersey] State-Prison...
...Iraq's oil fields are much larger than Kuwait's; they are spread across an area the size of Rhode Island in northern Iraq and over a region in the south about the size of New Jersey. U.S. military experts estimate Saddam could also dump up to 3 million bbl. a day into the Persian Gulf, shutting down up to 15 desalinization plants around the littoral and despoiling the shores and wildlife for decades. Cleaning up after Saddam could cost close to $50 billion and severely handicap Iraq's postwar economic recovery--not to mention America...
...they want to relinquish their parental rights. At a time when the failure of the classic child-welfare system is grabbing headlines across the country (a little girl missing for 15 months in Florida before officials even noticed; a young boy dead and his brothers starving in a New Jersey basement), some social workers are pushing shared family care as a possible solution. Results from the small studies that have been done are promising: children whose parents complete the program are only half as likely to re-enter the child-welfare system as those whose families reunite after foster care...