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...right amount. And while American vegetarianism has broken free of its philosophical and religious roots, becoming an accepted health choice - many restaurants offer vegetarian options and most dinner party planners now ask "is anyone vegetarian?" before planning the menu - veganism is still tied to the animal-rights movement and is out there on the fringe...
...Army and state police have largely put down the movement through force and through a strategy of persuading militants, often through their families, to surrender, re-enter "the mainstream" and accept financial assistance. Peace talks with ULFA broke down in 2006, and two battalions of the group have refused to surrender, setting up bases in neighboring Bangladesh and in Burma, intelligence officials say. P.K. Mishra, inspector general of the Border Security Force for the Assam & Meghalaya frontier, who spoke to TIME from his headquarters in the city, says he thinks the blasts are the work of the two ULFA battalions...
...marriage in three states, alternative fuels are now a necessity—not an innovation, and more Americans are finding themselves turned off by the mantra of the Bush doctrine. In order for conservatism to win at Harvard, let alone America, we need to be better spokespersons for our movement and our party and the campus conservative movement has been doing exactly that...
Elizabeth Martinez, a hotel worker from California, shared her experiences as an employee and a labor organizer with Harvard students in a discussion yesterday organized by the Harvard Student Labor Action Movement. Martinez has been working as a waitress at the Hilton Hotel in Long Beach, Calif. for 11 years. She said that working conditions have degenerated since the management of the hotel was turned over four years ago to HEI Hotels and Resorts, a company supported by funds from various university endowments. “The way they manage those hotels is just horrible,” Martinez said...
...Abukeshek, does the Palestinian cause. Their reduced mobility, combined with increasing internet access, has led the stone-throwing Palestinian children who, for many, became the lasting image of the first intifada in the late 1980s and early 90s, to bring their resistance online during the second. Sociologists call the movement "e-Palestine": a feeling of nationhood cultivated online by young members of the fractured diaspora, some living in the confines of the occupied territories; others born and raised in exile and connected to Palestine at a remove of several generations. With the internet domain suffix ".ps," this young online community...