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When I was a kid, I did an interview with my grandmother and her sister. My grandmother was this larger-than-life character and her parents had died in the flu epidemic of 1918. They were orphans, and she raised up her sisters. And I interviewed her and two of her sisters. My grandmother died when I was 15; the other sisters died; and when I was 17, I went looking for that tape. I wasn't able to find it. And still, to this day, when I go to my parents' house, I go searching for that tape...
...years, is most famous for his work as an entomologist and his advocacy for the environment. The film featured reenactments of Wilson’s boyhood, including the incident with a pinfish that left him permanently blind in one eye. The accident left him unable to study larger creatures like birds, and pushed him to study insects. “I can’t understand why most people don’t study ants,” said Wilson, whose book “The Ants” won him his second Pulitzer in 1991. At a discussion following...
...changes, which the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) plans to implement for the 2008-09 academic year, will improve stipends for graduate students in the social sciences and humanities while making it possible for graduate programs in science and engineering divisions to admit larger Ph.D. classes...
YWAM was founded in 1960, primarily to train and promote short-term missionary work by evangelical young people. It boasts a staff of 16,000 people in 149 countries, and its local offices have considerable autonomy. It is well respected in the larger general evangelical world for taking on one of its most necessary tasks: making sure that the thousands of teenagers and twentysomethings flooding into developing nations to do missionary work have at least some grounding before they depart. Notes Moreau, YWAM is "lean, it's nimble, creative, and there's very little hierarchical control." It has dealt with...
...economic embargo is concerned, Kosovo looks like an easy target. With a territory some seven times larger than Kosovo's and with a population five times as big, Serbia looms heavily over the province. Furthermore, some 70% of Kosovo's consumer goods come from Serbia, and so does much of its electricity supply. In theory, the embargo would cripple Kosovo's already troubled economy, especially if it includes cuts in electricity...