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...Rosa Parks, the renowned civil rights icon, died of natural causes on Monday in her home in Detroit, Mich. She was 92. When Rosa Parks refused to move, a whole movement began. Park’s refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery, Ala. bus sparked the influential 1960s civil rights movement. Her arrest in 1955 provoked the 381-day bus boycott in Montgomery, led by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Following the boycott, the United States government instituted the 1964 federal Civil Rights Act, which banned racial discrimination in public spaces. Parks...
...matter, solar cells, wind power, synthetic gasoline from coal--all could make a dent once they are available in sufficient quantities. But that won't be for years, maybe decades, says Richard Heinberg, a professor of culture, ecology and sustainable community at the New College of California in Santa Rosa and the author of The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies. Twenty years in the future, he argues, "regular old oil will still be the dominant fuel. We'll just end up paying more...
...lightly with this painfully complex period in American history. Clichéd lines such as, “We’re not so different after all. We all just want to have fun!” and “We’ll set off sparks like Rosa Parks!” jeopardize the validity of the show’s eight Tony Awards. Also, while the casts’ energy was undeniable, certain actors “broke character” repeatedly. During Link Larkin’s (Tracy’s love interest) rendition...
...ROBERT FUNK, 79, biblical scholar who founded the controversial Jesus Seminar--a twice-yearly meeting that eventually attracted some 200 fellows--which, in its search for the historical Jesus, outraged conservative Christians by questioning the authenticity of miracles and sayings attributed to Jesus in the New Testament; in Santa Rosa, Calif...
...figure out how to fight the war." He should have added that it is time for the press and the Democrats to stop playing politics with the Iraq war and demanding a timetable for U.S. withdrawal. Their words give aid and comfort to the enemy. Ekbert Shaw Santa Rosa, California, U.S. Klein argued that although the U.S. presidential election is long over, the campaign-style spinning persists. The Iraq war is out of control. Anyone who believes there is a political solution to the problems in Iraq must be dreaming. The U.S. will never be able to extricate itself from...