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...Page.” The show, which took place Friday in the Adams House Pool Theatre, featured 11 short but intense pieces of contemporary dance. Works of literature, ranging from “One Hundred Years of Solitude” to “Goodnight Moon,” inspired each dance. Elizabeth A. Miller ’09 and Julia K. Lindpaintner ’09 served as both directors and producers of “Off the Page.”The Adams House Pool Theatre served as an intimate atmosphere for the show, with enough breathing room...
...Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a series of reports that laid to rest any doubts that global warming is real - and outlined the frightening consequences of continued inaction. At the release of the IPCC's final summary last month, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon - who has made climate change a top priority of his administration - laid out the threat in stark terms. "The world's scientists have spoken clearly, and with one voice," he said. "I expect the world's policymakers to act the same...
...kids of a certain period - the heyday and then the decline of the moon-landing program - the star-spangle-wearing Knievel was like an astronaut, but more exciting for how briefly and dangerously he broke the bonds of the Earth. With every boast, promise, world record and broken bone, he became a bigger figure and graced more lunchboxes. Driven to top himself, he pushed motorcycle design, and his luck, by commissioning the Skycycle, a rocket-boosted cycle he would use for his most famous jump. Trying to clear the Snake River Canyon in Idaho in 1974, he was blown into...
...base for an alliance of Somali nationalist rebels, the UIC and separatist Ethiopian rebels from the Ogaden National Liberation Front. In July the U.N. Monitoring Group on Somalia, based in Nairobi, said Eritrea was supplying Somali insurgents with "huge" amounts of arms. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has expressed serious concern about a military buildup along the Eritrea-Ethiopia border, where the U.N. has had peacekeepers since 2001. In Somalia, a small African Union peacekeeping force of 1,600 Ugandans is charged with keeping the factions apart. On Nov. 23, the U.S. State Department said it was committed...
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