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...directly related to rising concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide that have resulted from burning fossil fuels like petroleum. Instead of increasing our addiction to damaging fossil fuels, we should develop the political will to reduce our use. ALAN F. ARBOGAST DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY East Lansing, Mich...
...Deborah A. Stabenow, D-Mich., spoke on the importance of women in politics and the challenges she has faced as Michigan’s first female senator before a full audience at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum on Friday afternoon. Stabenow spoke as part of the series “From Harvard Square to the Oval Office: A Political Campaign Practicum”—an initiative of the Women and Public Policy Program at the Kennedy School of Government, co-sponsored by the Institute of Politics. Stabenow focused on the issue of suffrage, praising women who fought...
Rosa Parks, the renowned civil rights icon, died of natural causes on Monday in her home in Detroit, Mich. She was 92. When Rosa Parks refused to move, a whole movement began. Park’s refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery, Ala. bus sparked the influential 1960s civil rights movement. Her arrest in 1955 provoked the 381-day bus boycott in Montgomery, led by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Following the boycott, the United States government instituted the 1964 federal Civil Rights Act, which banned racial discrimination in public spaces. Parks...
DENISE FITZGERALD Shelby Township, Mich...
Eileen Yee, 33, is typical of the newly minted female player. An accountant from Ferndale, Mich., she was riveted to ESPN last year during the World Series of Poker. "What grabbed me," she says, "was the excitement and drama." Afterward, she continued to watch televised poker for hours at a time, bought a book on strategy and refined her game online and at live tables. Residing in a state where gaming outside a casino is illegal, she finds it hard as a woman to pick up live games as often as she would like. At her computer, she can ante...