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...students start to head back to campus, the decisions made at the Detroit convention will be put to the test. SDSers may still have time to prove themselves. "SDS is just beginning to organize itself. They're learning from our mistakes, not repeating them," says Mark Rudd, the leader of the 1968 Columbia strike who has been an unofficial consultant to the new SDS. "Give it time before you make comparisons...
...China didn't take a tougher stand on the government of Sudan over the Darfur crisis. Days later Beijing went along with a plan to send U.N. peacekeepers to the war-plagued region. While a connection between Spielberg's pressure and the U.N. vote would be tough to prove, the timing certainly won't dissuade others from attempting to use the Olympics to pressure China on everything from Darfur to Tibet to greater religious freedom...
...Monday representatives from Paris-based NGO Reporters Without Borders held a press conference outside the offices of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games to demand the release of some 100 journalists and online activists imprisoned in China. As if to prove the group's point about the mainland's restrictions on media and freedom of speech, police detained a group of journalists for more than an hour after the event. Amnesty International also issued a statement this week about human rights in the country, warning that the detention of dissidents, harassment of lawyers and restrictions on domestic media...
...rest of the league is up for grabs, and we all have a lot to prove,” he said. “Whether we were picked second or sixth, it really doesn’t matter. We still have question marks...
...soon to know if the science that was meant to help the farming industry has instead dealt it a new blow. Scientists are already investigating what Reynolds described as "a small number" of possible outbreaks elsewhere. Farmers and tourist chiefs pray these tests will prove negative, but are already set to suffer. A ban on exports of livestock is in place and the European Union and individual countries will introduce further restrictions on British imports. Meanwhile scare stories about FMD are beginning to circulate. The disease very rarely affects humans, but despite such assurances in 2001, many visitors canceled...