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...many of the initiatives suggested in the report, such as erecting the first major slave trade memorial in the U.S. and creating a center for the continuing study of slavery and justice. Simmons also exceeded the committee’s recommendations about how Brown could help public school students obtain a quality education by establishing a trust fund—grown in perpetuity as part of the university’s endowment—to provide educational programs for Providence schoolchildren.Alongside Yale and Brown, several other schools—like the University of Alabama, the University of North Carolina...
Tusumba, 45, is a straight-backed, teetotaling former deputy governor of Kasai province who never quite fit in politics. He started to come to that conclusion in 2000, when his constituents brought him a baby bonobo as a gift. Tusumba realized the villagers had slaughtered a bonobo family to obtain the little female. Rather than raise her as a pet, he decided to make her part of his family. "I used to eat with her at my table," he says. When Tusumba's term as deputy governor ended in 2004, he started concentrating full time on conservation, knowing...
...police were examining alleged similarities between the case and a storyline from a British television drama series, Shameless, shown less than a month before the 9-year-old vanished. In that episode, the head of a dysfunctional family staged a fake kidnap of his son in an attempt to obtain a ransom...
...Harvard Engineers have raised donations from corporations and received a grant from the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. Members of the group say that one obstacle that they have encountered has been trying to obtain information about a rural community more than 1,500 miles away in the Dominican Republic while remaining on campus in Cambridge...
Thousands of new patients have flooded doctors’ waiting rooms in the months since Massachusetts passed a bill requiring that all residents obtain health insurance. Over half of the previously 600,000 uninsured residents have since signed onto health care plans, and the influx of new patients is taxing primary care physicians across the state. The Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS) warns in their 2007 report that primary care physicians believe that “a workforce shortage is imminent...