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Kang Il Chul, a South Korean woman abducted from her home at age fifteen and forced into sex slavery during World War II by Japanese soldiers occupying Korea, told her story to a packed crowd of students at Harvard Law School’s Pound Hall yesterday evening. “When they came for me it was on a day when my parents were not at home. I was fifteen. They had no way of knowing where I was,” Kang said through a translator. “They had to live with sorrow. How much...
...building to test his parachute - a contraption resembling an oversized umbrella, which he had invented to help people escape burning buildings. On February 2, 1912, in much the same spirit, 35-year-old Frederick Law jumped off the Statue of Liberty's observation platform. He and his 100-pound parachute landed with a thud on Liberty Island's stone coping, a few yards from the water. A Russian man named Vladimir Ossovski performed a similar stunt a year later when he jumped from a bridge in Rouen, France into the river Seine. In 1975, a member of the CN Tower...
...street performers and pumpkin decorating workshops. The activities are free of charge. The T and the food are not. Belkin Family Working Farm One of the oldest continuously working farms in the country, the Belkin working was established in 1651 and charges $14 to get in and $2.50 per pound of fruit. Pony rides, burlap mazes, hay pyramids and train rides are available for children and freshmen...
...late real-estate mogul Seymour Durst first erected the clock on Feb. 20, 1989 to call attention to the consequences of Reaganomics. At the time, the country had a national debt of $2.7 trillion. The original 25-foot-wide, 1,500-pound, 306-bulb sign cost more than $120,000 to create and install. (It now costs more than $500 a month to operate and maintain the light bulbs). Durst told reporters he had no plans to ever remove the clock. "It'll be up as long as the debt or the city lasts," he said, adding, "If it bothers...
...hell-bent on trying to do more and more for humankind all the time. I went to a clinic that handles little tiny babies that are born premature and they showed us what new equipment they have and how the baby can be saved and nourished at even a pound and a half. We spend hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars to save little premature babies and that shows a real commitment on our part. And then we turn right around and, for the mentally ill, we have made it so difficult for so long to even...