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...level of violence is still shocking. Close to the Kentucky Club, heavily armed police escort an ambulance ferrying a gang member with bullet wounds to a hospital and sit guard in case his rivals try to come in and finish him off. "You watch what's happening, and you burst into tears," says Vargas. "Your spirit lives in the gutter." Severed heads are often left on roadsides and at police stations; the bodies they were once attached to are sometimes hung from bridges and overpasses. A mass grave holding nine corpses was recently discovered outside the city, and in November...
Still, until Juárez's crisis finally lifts, there are plenty in El Paso who will demand more and "weigh in on national policy," as O'Rourke, the city-council member, puts it. Talk of legalizing marijuana is growing; the U.N. Commission on Narcotic Drugs in March heard prominent drug researchers argue that cannabis should be sold legally and taxed like tobacco. Ernesto Zedillo and César Gaviria, former Presidents of Mexico and Colombia, respectively, have said the same. And Mexico's Congress is again debating decriminalization of marijuana use, after backing off the issue a few years ago under...
...organization members, after gathering near the John Adams statue awaiting their cue, began an anti-climactic walk down the aisles of Annenberg while one member blared--well, more like played softly--music from his ipod speakers. After every individual busted out his or her runway walk towards the center of the room, the group came together to show off their dancing skills to the crowd. Oh, did we mention that you should come to Eleganza...
...accommodate the disparity in academic focus between the human evolutionary biology concentration within anthropology and the rest of the department, the Faculty Council—the 18-member governing body of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences—passed a proposal yesterday to make human evolutionary biology a separate department. Under the plan, the anthropology department—which currently offers concentrations in human evolutionary biology and anthropology, with three separate tracks—would divide into two separate departments. The human evolutionary biology concentration offered by the anthropology department is essentially a life science with some elements...
Barreira attributes this high participation rate to a remarkably small student to staff ratio—one staff member per 700 students as compared to one staff member per 1000-1500 students on average nationally—and the high visibility of mental health services on campus...