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...exact origin of Devil's Night is unclear. People who grew up in Detroit following World War II recall kids plastering cars with toilet paper, and tossing onto porches fiery paper bags filled with feces. Huge swaths of this city burned during the 1967 riots, leaving the kind of blighted property that experts say lures prospective arsonists. John Hall, a researcher at the National Fire Prevention Association, said the presence of so many vacant properties presented the ingredients for what's known as "the broken windows syndrome." He says "when people see a collection of abandoned properties in one location...
Despite the ancient origin of the story, the actors insist that its message is highly relevant for college students. “I think it’s a really nuanced investigation of freedom and the responsibility that freedom brings, and the decision to accept responsibility and come into full consciousness,” says Madeleine A. Bennett ’11, who plays one of the Furies. “It’s not just an affirmation of freedom, but a critical look at what it implies and whether it’s worth taking...
...study, entitled ‘Resonant stripping as the origin of dwarf spheroidal galaxies,’ Elena D’Onghia explained the existence of dwarf galaxies on the outskirts of the Local Group, and found that slightly lower mass galaxies seemed to rotate around slightly larger galaxies which in turn stripped the smaller galaxies of their luminous matter. She coined this process “resonant stripping...
Cameron, Kirk • video promoting an altered creationist version of Origin of Species - a version containing an introduction citing "Darwin's racism" and "his disdain for women" and tossing in an obligatory link to Hitler - is narrated by, and made fun of, and made more...
...even those who don't have family connections to Detroit are drawn there by the comforting presence of a large Arab-American community. A third of Dearborn's 100,000 residents are of Middle Eastern origin; they trace their ancestry to over a dozen Arab nations, but the largest groups are Lebanese, Yemeni and Iraqi-Chaldean. In areas like the Southend and eastern Dearborn, the language you're most likely to hear in the streets is Arabic. There are mosques, grocery stores that sell Arabic goods and restaurants that serve Arabic food. Two-thirds of all schoolkids are of Arab...