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...government's flirtation with self-styled "dissident" AIDS scientists who believe the disease isn't caused by the HIV virus. Mbeki even put a nationalist spin on his angry retort to those who criticized him for giving credence to discredited science. Distinguishing AIDS in Africa as a primarily heterosexual phenomenon that is destined to slash average life expectancy in his region to 47, Mbeki insisted that "as Africans we have to deal with this uniquely African catastrophe" and that simply accepting Western conventional wisdom on AIDS would be "absurd and illogical." Mbeki's remarks, in letter to President Clinton - which...
...dismiss racism as nothing more than a Southern phenomenon and a lasting vestige of the Confederacy, we will never heal our national wounds. Indeed, she seems to have far less racial problems than most northern cities where racial tension often erupts into violence. We have had no police shootings in Charleston over the Confederate flag issue, no racial warfare--merely dialogue and compromise. Instead of vilifying South Carolina, perhaps we should take work out our problems through words and not bullets and hate...
...Willison '03, the man who coined the term Store 23, explains, "It's the bane of my late-night existence...I've witnessed the Store 23 phenomenon at least 5 or 6 times." The symptoms are the same every time: a recycled sign claiming that the store will re-open at 3:30 (when in fact re-opening usually occurs up to an hour later), a stench of cannabis in the air and a familiar, red-eyed cashier. Willison suspects one culprit is responsible: "It's that white guy with the glasses who looks like Eminem." Upon questioning, the manager...
...have a new phenomenon called driving while black," Cochran said...
...efficacy of online learning compared with campus-based instruction. But what is distressing is the persistent indictment of distance education by skeptical faculty. In 1998, 1,680 institutions enrolled 1.6 million students in 54,000 distance courses, and an ever increasing proportion are online. To refer to this burgeoning phenomenon as naive and as counterfeit education or to declare that it is not as good as in-person education implies that what occurs in classrooms is the model to be emulated. This attitude prompts me to ask, Who is naive about how a digitized society will access learning? MICHAEL BEAUDOIN...