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None of these discoveries would have been possible were it not for Harvard’s Houghton Library, which made Cummings’ personal papers available to Sawyer-Lauçanno, including suicide notes and reflections on consultations with his psychiatrists. “Nearly every scrap of paper he had written was saved,” he said. They added up to hundreds of boxes of diaries, correspondence, and drafts of poetry...
...Trouble is, it's often hazardous. Late last month, 10 laborers were killed in the New Delhi satellite town of Ghaziabad while unloading a pile of scrap metal that contained live 81-mm mortar shells. Over the next few days, hundreds more artillery rounds turned up at about 20 locations. An investigation by the Directorate-General of Foreign Trade concluded that the munitions had come from Iraq, although it wasn't clear to whom they had belonged...
...Indian environmentalists say the outside world shouldn't treat their country as a dump for hazardous waste. But the importers share blame?war-zone scrap is among the cheapest on the market?as do government regulators. "Look outside," says Akram, a supervisor at the Ghaziabad plant where the workers died, pointing to the rubbish-strewn and excrement-paved street next to the factory: "We can blame the world. But it's not like we help ourselves much, either...
When Gore did just that in 2000, many Democrats decided it was time to scrap the Electoral College. But that requires a constitutional amendment, not an easy thing to pass when swing states like the current system, which affords them a disproportionate share of the candidates' attention. The Constitution gives state legislatures the power to decide how electors are chosen, and since 2000, legislators in 29 states have proposed bills eliminating winner-take-all systems. Not one bill has passed. The party that dominates the statehouse usually has an edge in presidential campaigns and is thus reluctant to share...
This vision could have broad appeal on both sides of the political spectrum. It would represent a coherent effort to attack the causes of poverty-—and it would do so by expanding opportunity, not the welfare state. That isn’t to say we should scrap the safety nets we have. The way to reduce welfare rolls isn’t to cut off those in need, but to invest in people before welfare becomes their only option...