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Spring break for many undergraduates means sandy beaches with a sun setting in the distance and tan bodies streched out near the ocean. But for 28 Harvard students, the last week in March will mean a trip to rainy and humid Luxembourg to manage the third annual Harvard Model Congress Europe (HMCE) conference...
Certainly some of these values and beliefs are carried over from Asia. But the Asians who came to America are nothing like a random sample of the population of their native countries. Those people who are willing to consciously pull up stakes and move across the ocean to improve their lots are obviously exceptionally ambitious. This helps explain the extraordinary proportion of first-generation immigrants of all races who start their own businesses. Education and self-improvement are likely to be important values to such people...
...Europe by the invitation of host countries and Soviet troops are occupying forces. As a practical matter, additional American forces are needed because, instead of pulling back a relatively short distance across land as the Soviets will do, the U.S. will be withdrawing thousands of miles across an ocean. Any future troop buildup in Europe would thus require greater effort by Washington than by Moscow. Most U.S. analysts read the Soviet stand-down as one more sign that Gorbachev wants to reach a quick -- and successful -- end to the year-old Conventional Forces in Europe negotiations. "They are desperate...
...Petroleum tanker that dumped 349,000 gal. of crude oil into an area once known as Surf City, U.S.A. Complained the other Democratic candidate for Governor, former San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein: "California has ignored the lessons of Alaska." She reiterated / her proposal to create a new department of ocean resources to protect the sea, bays and estuaries. For his part, Republican candidate Pete Wilson reminded a partisan crowd in Los Angeles, "As your U.S. Senator, I have stood up to two Presidents of my own party to oppose oil drilling off the California coast...
...Atlantic City expecting a piece of nostalgia. Once lined with tidy shops, the Boardwalk is now dominated by these skyscraping casinos. Sitting on the edge of that famous wooden thouroughfare and staring out past the empty, seaweed-strewn beaches and into the ocean serves little purpose but to remind one of what was once a great town...