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...bleached it, I dressed in a fashionable way of old clothes because I couldn’t afford new ones. I became a sort of exotic figure, took a lot of drugs, had a lot of sex with people I never saw again. Did lots of things that would kill you now, but it was that sort of time. Everyone was nice and open and I came at a time when it was easier to be a black woman in America than ever before. I was lucky, and also I was kind of stupid in the sense that I didn?...

Author: By Julia S Chen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Jamaica Kincaid | 12/10/2008 | See Source »

...Across the street from Fortune, another Gates recipient—Hasan, a professor of dermatology—is working on an innovative way to kill infections using photodynamic therapy...

Author: By Alissa M D'gama, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gates Grants Fund Research | 12/9/2008 | See Source »

...These compounds will kill anything in the vicinity,” Hasaan said. “That’s really the beauty...

Author: By Alissa M D'gama, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gates Grants Fund Research | 12/9/2008 | See Source »

...term genocide is young in the context of human conflict. It was coined in 1944 by Polish lawyer Raphael Lemkin, who combined the Greek genos (race) with the Latin cide (to kill). Despite its murderous implications, the word, as defined by the CPPCG, does not necessarily always involve the killing of individuals. Genocide denotes crimes committed "with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group." Forced sterilization or other measures designed to prevent births, the removal of children from a group, or conditions of life inflicted on a group to bring about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brief History of Genocide | 12/9/2008 | See Source »

...article in Foreign Affairs magazine, U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates writes, "Over the long term, the United States cannot kill or capture its way to victory. Where possible, [military] operations should be subordinated to measures aimed at promoting better governance ... and efforts to address the grievances among the discontented, from whom the terrorists recruit." But so far, the U.S. is failing to do that. With the possibility that Indian threats of retaliation over last month's terror attacks on Mumbai could force Pakistan to move its military to the east from the Afghan border, where it is currently fighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Warlords Toughen US Task in Afghanistan | 12/9/2008 | See Source »

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