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Noon. As the gruel is doled out, cooks keep the six vats brewing, boiling dense brown river water to purge at least some of the bacteria, then stirring in the Unimix with wooden poles. One cook estimates that it will take 80 vats to feed everyone here this day. At...
Maybe engineers and designers should get Olympic medals. In the pole vault, heights jumped 30% with the switch from bamboo to fiber-glass and carbon- composite poles. Tracks have been resurfaced to give runners more bounce and speed, and pools have been designed to dampen wave action that buffets swimmers...
None of this can happen too soon. Demands for ethnic self-determination could soon cause fearsome violence in many more parts of the world. China gives the outside world the impression of being a monolith, yet it contains 55 ethnic minorities numbering perhaps 80 million people, many of whom are...
. An earnest though imperfect attempt to embody the Wilsonian principle of national self-determination, the postwar settlement created several new countries that were true nation-states. The Poles got back Poland, and the Hungarians got Hungary.
He spent one winter vacation in Lake Nebagamon,Wisconsin at the home of his roommate, Thomas J.Norman '92. "When we talk about racial diversityback home, we mean there are Poles, Germans, andScandanavians," Norman says. "Everyone was reallytaken with Anton. They liked him so much that theyasked him to give a...