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...last October of a ban on what critics call partial-birth abortion, the Senate last week voted, 61 to 38, to make it a crime to injure or kill a fetus when a pregnant woman is attacked in a federal crime. The House, spurred by the killing of Laci Peterson and her unborn son in California more than a year ago, passed the measure in February, and President Bush has promised to sign it. Supporters deny it is linked to abortion, pointing out that 29 states already have unborn-victim laws. "This bill is about simple justice," said Republican Senator...
...recipient of the Roger Tory Peterson Medal, Sir David Attenborough will give the Roger Tory Peterson Memorial Lecture, “Bird Artists and Artist Birds: Plumes and Bowers in New Guinea” Sunday, which focuses on his work in natural history. He is a conservationist, natural history filmmaker, and host of the popular BBC series, “The Life of Birds.” The series documented some of the world’s rarest birds and involved 256,000 miles of travel – 10 times around the earth. Tickets free but required in advance...
...realized when he left to write his final report: "I knew and loved the Arnhem Land people ? I had more in common with them than with my own kind. I knew I would be lonely for them always." Thomson's writings, compiled by Australian National University anthropologist Nicolas Peterson, at times leave one wanting more detail of the growth of such bonds. But elsewhere Thomson deftly steps between the roles of reflective friend and sharply observant scientist, sometimes with melancholic effect, as when he writes of the hunters who "are so much a part of the landscape; they...
...this edition Peterson has added a jewel - 80 extra images from Thomson's trove of 10,500 negatives from Arnhem Land and Cape York. (These, along with 5,700 artefacts and 4,500 pages of field notes, form a priceless ethnographic collection at Museum Victoria.) They document the vanished world of a self-sufficient and proud nomadic society: a solemn young widow receiving a ceremonial staff topped with a bundle of string and her husband's finger bone; hunters gliding stealthily on canoes through the giant Arafura Swamp. Particularly powerful are the portraits, so different from the era's stiff...
...experience really flies in the face of every stereotype you’ve heard about low-income kids,” said panelist Jaine Guzman, who taught in Peterson, New Jersey...