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...Peru Let’s Go researcher killed in bus accident...
Haley S. Surti ’01, who had just days before received her bachelors’ degree cum laude from the College, died June 12 in a bus crash in Peru...
...PERU Fujimori Charged Peru's Congress voted unanimously to charge former President Alberto Fujimori with murder and crimes against humanity, but Japan said it would not extradite him. The charges against Fujimori, who fled to Japan last year, follow an official investigation that found he authorized the killings of students and left-wing opponents by paramilitary death squads in the early 1990s...
Fortunately, Thompson has already "read" many of the records that are now gravely endangered. From the Quelccaya ice cap in southern Peru, for example, he has reconstructed a 1,500-year sequence of swings from wet to dry that eerily track the rise and fall of ancient civilizations. From glaciers on opposite sides of the world, some in the Andes, others in the Himalayas, he has built a strong case that the tropics were far colder 20,000 years ago, at the height of the last ice age, than most scientists thought possible...
Breaking this molecular hullabaloo into its elemental physical forces is Carlos Bustamante's specialty. Bustamante, 50, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at the University of California, Berkeley, came to the U.S. from Peru 26 years ago as a Fulbright scholar. In the early 1990s, while at the University of Oregon, he and his colleagues tacked one end of a DNA molecule to a magnetic bead and measured its elasticity by tugging at the bead with magnets. A stroke of genius, no doubt, but to what end? "We didn't quite know how to answer that question at the time...