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Gilligan's courses on adolescents and moral development draw the largest enrollments of any courses at the Ed School, with more than 150 students enrolled in one of her courses last spring. "I've always been very involved in teaching, and I plan to stay involved. My teaching has always been closely connected to my research. My students provide an important source of my intellectual questioning...
Both nature and culture have long conspired to excite Quebec's yearning for autonomy. As Canada's largest province, with twice the area of Texas and a gross domestic product double that of New Zealand, Quebec is confident that its thick forests and clear mountain lakes afford it the resources to go it alone. As a pocket of Europe, American-style, graced with both fairy-tale cobbled streets and shiny futuristic shopping malls, the province seems already to belong to a different country from Newfoundland or the Yukon...
...very day that the country's new constitution went into effect, rioting broke out in several black residential areas outside Johannesburg, the country's largest city. A major site of the trouble was Sharpeville, the township where in 1960 South African police fired machine guns into a crowd of peaceful demonstrators, killing 69 blacks. This time, angry crowds set buildings on fire and threw stones at police in troop carriers, while air force helicopters hovered overhead. After police had moved in with tear gas and attack dogs, they found a scene of death and devastation. Four blacks...
...into strong opposition from environmentalists, especially in California's storied motherlode country near Sonora and in the northern foothills around Clear Lake. Property owners and politicians have forced Placer Mining Services, a Fluor subsidiary, to stop digging at its mine near Nevada City. Homestake, America's largest producer, and Sonora Mining have also felt pressures against their bulldozing and blasting...
...three huge pressure cookers, called autoclaves, near one of its projects. In them, pure oxygen is pumped through a slurry of gold ore and water to eliminate pollution. By the end of the century, American gold output could reach 200 tons a year, thus making the U.S. the third largest producer behind South Africa (680 tons currently) and the Soviet Union (283 tons...