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Students from Lambda, Harvard Law School’s gay rights organization, convened Saturday at the first annual Gay and Lesbian Legal Advocacy conference to map out the course of gay rights activism following the recent Supreme Court ruling upholding the Solomon Amendment...
...Palestinians and establishing new borders--all within four years. Olmert's team calls the idea "convergence": it would amount to the first large-scale uprooting of Israeli citizens from the West Bank since the territory was captured in 1967. Olmert told TIME that he expects the post-convergence map to be "very close to what may be the final borderlines" between Israel and the Palestinians--a notion that outrages Palestinians, since Olmert also says he intends to hold on to the largest Israeli settlements in the West Bank. And the plan could spark further ugly confrontations between the government...
...showed some slides of his work. "Wild grass," he said, pausing for emphasis. "It can be beautiful. It's very modern." Before long someone brought him a box of children's markers and a map, and he went to work sketching in islands of existing rice paddies within the planned lake's neat, rectangular perimeter. The official in charge of the project (who asked not to be named) winced. "I have plenty of paddies in this town," he told Yu. "If people want to look at them, they can go somewhere else. I don't need paddies in my lake...
...mail, Coatsworth praised Lemann’s contribution to Brazilian studies at Harvard, explaining that the alum’s previous multi-million dollar donations have helped lay the foundation for the new office by putting Brazil “on Harvard’s mental map...
...that propagate out from the fault at 8,000 or more m.p.h. While the punch packed by these waves tends to diminish as the distance from the fault increases, that's not always the case. From historical accounts, USGS seismologist Jack Boatwright has assembled a ShakeMap for 1906--a map that displays the intensity of shaking in different areas. For San Francisco and other communities close to the San Andreas, it was quite severe. But even more severe was the shaking that occurred in the city of Santa Rosa, more than 15 miles away from the fault. On a scale...