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...Oglala Lakota, and we adopted him as a foster child, so that’s sort of the basis of my involvement in the Native American community.”She said that the campus group seeks to incorporate indigenous peoples’ perspectives into courses that often omit mention of Native Americans. “I think that’s important, not just for Indian people but also for people that are not Indian,” Baer said.‘THE LARGER PICTURE’Data on student groups at Harvard suggests that, indeed, more...
...believe, Cheek has not been sitting around moping or scheming. After winning his two medals in Turin, the speedskater has been flying from city to city, working for the charitable association Right to Play and doing three to five interviews a day.That’s not to mention all the praise and honors that have been heaped upon him.Since carrying the United States flag in the closing ceremony of the Games, Cheek has been given the U.S. Olympic Committee’s Spirit Award, appeared on the Wheaties box, and met with President Bush and House Democratic whip Nancy...
...Some 1,000,000 census takers set off around the country on Tuesday and will knock on doors through Saturday asking how many people live in each house. There is no mention of religion and ethnicity on the census forms and President Olusegun Obasanjo has urged Nigerians to treat the national tally as an act of citizenship rather than politics. "Census-taking is not politics and should therefore not be a contest for political supremacy," Obasanjo said in a national television and radio broadcast. "We need accurate data for a planned and progressive society, so as to be able...
...checking of the BlackBerry-how about my boss writing emails during my annual review! I stopped talking and he looked up at me like I was dumb for not continuing. He starts waving his hand, gesturing, while telling me urgently to "Go on." What is that about? Not to mention his phone-answering. During a meeting he was sitting in on, with one of my biggest customers, he picked up the phone and made a call...
...that are instant messaging while doing homework, playing games online and watching TV, I predict, aren't going to do well in the long run," says Jordan Grafman, chief of the cognitive neuroscience section at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS). Decades of research (not to mention common sense) indicate that the quality of one's output and depth of thought deteriorate as one attends to ever more tasks. Some are concerned about the disappearance of mental downtime to relax and reflect. Roberts notes Stanford students "can't go the few minutes between their 10 o'clock...