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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Karen Narasaki, an influential national advocate for Asian Pacific American civil rights, spoke last night before a large audience in the main auditorium of Boylston Hall...
...Neither has been hit directly by the panic," he said. "The main thing they want to understand is what lessons can youlearn, [like] don't open financial markets to theoutside world with a sick banking system. The nameof the game is to get rid of the conditions thatcaused...
...story, on one level, of a gifted young black man's struggles on the streets and in the jails of Washington, D.C., the main piece of this puzzle is undoubtedly Raymond Joshua (played by Saul Williams) in his debut performance. Arrested for marijuana possession after his drug-dealing friend is shot by a rival gang, Ray is sent to prison. Inside he finds the gang lifestyle to be as fierce as it is on the streets, and there he comes to the realization that he wants out of the game. Released on bail while awaiting his trial, he wrestles with...
...rain forests are being destroyed at an alarming rate and with them, the cures for just about any disease imaginable. This is taught to every second grader, and it is one of the main themes in the new IMAX film Amazon. Now playing at the Boston Museum of Science, Amazon follows two medicine men--an American ethnobotonist and a tribal shaman--on their separate quests for new plants and possible medicines, before they are gone. Although it hasn't been as well publicized as Everest, the other IMAX film currently playing at the museum, crowds of a respectable size still...
...main value is the maintenance of biological diversity," said Wilson. "When you cut a natural forest and replace it with farmland or a tree farm, you go from thousands of flowering plant species...to perhaps one tree species and a tiny number of organisms associated with...