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...Harvard men’s water polo team finished its season this past weekend, closing out the year with a fourth-place showing at the Eastern Championships at Blodgett Pool. The team, entering as the sixth seed after winning its third-place game at the Northern Championships, faced the difficult task of taking down No. 20 Johns Hopkins in the first round to advance.The Blue Jays had already defeated the Crimson twice this season.“This is the weekend we train for all year,” head coach Erik Farrar said. “We played...
...Brough "The sad thing is ... Australians don't actually vote on indigenous affairs." Experience: Family, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs Minister since 2006 Brough is the face of the government's boldest campaign this year - the Northern Territory Emergency Response to child abuse in Aboriginal communities. He has won praise in a sensitive portfolio but brickbats, too - critics say the straight-talking former Army officer has undermined indigenous autonomy...
...genetic journey through history using patterns of known mutations that differ among populations. The tests traced Castelo-Branco back to Spain, a short hop over the border from his homeland that came as no surprise. This was not the case for Sassanfar, whose lineage was traced to Northern Europe, an entirely different continent. “My family on my mother’s side has lived in Iran for the past 2,000 to 3,000 years,” Sassanfar said. “Of all regions, I would never have guessed that I would have come from...
...main reason Indian tea costs about $1.62 a kg to produce, compared with $1.23 in Sri Lanka, $1.16 in Kenya and 84 in Malawi. Strong unions in India's tea-growing regions have fought to preserve those benefits. Tea-estate workers are paid on average $1.38 a day in northern India and $2.25 in the south, and because the estates are so remote, workers must rely on tea companies for basic services. "The only long-term, sustainable solution is for estates to give workers a stake in the earnings," says Samir Roy, head of the Defense Committee for Plantation Workers...
...results have been explosive. Huge deposits of minerals, including, at Jabaluka in the Northern Territory, the richest known uranium deposits in the southern hemisphere, lie beneath the earth. No less than 15% of the total land area of Australia is owned or controlled by Aboriginal groups and councils. Some 700 land claims, covering 50% of the Australian landmass, await determination by the courts, and more are coming in every day. This avalanche has caused legal and bureaucratic gridlock. Few Aboriginal groups accept mediation by whites. No two groups agree on land use. Some, for instance, think that tribal land should...