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...farming or blue-collar jobs by 2010. In Inner Mongolia, human rights groups have criticized the relocations, saying that sticking herders into unfamiliar jobs only exacerbates the poverty everyone is trying to fight, and that in the process, Mongolian traditions are being lost - a sensitive subject in the semi-autonomous province where ethnic Mongolians were attacked during the Cultural Revolution. "Before, maybe herders raised goats; now they raise cattle. Or maybe they raised camel; now they're farming," says Yun Jin Feng, a professor at Inner Mongolia Agricultural University who has been studying local grasslands for 50 years. Scientists agree...
...Throughout high school, Zornow was heavily involved in the New York DJ battle scene. Three years ago, however, he went into semi-retirement...
...post-9/11.” Simpson’s attorney Ross E. Schreiber called the bail amount “completely unreasonable,” The Tech also reported. He argued that her active involvement in the MIT Electronics Research Society and her achievements as a National Merit semi-finalist should warrant a lower the bail. Bail was set by Judge Paul Mahony at $750. As part of her release agreement, Simpson must stay away from Logan Airport between now and her pre-trial hearing on Oct. 29, 2007, according to The Tech. Simpson could face as many...
...there the conversation ends. Students feel progressive, on average, while no one is surprised that a few bad eggs exist in the semi-secret world of million-dollar mansions filled with portraits of dead white men. We can rest easy, it seems, for even if clubs do not welcome blacks, Asians, or gays, final club devotees constitute a mere 15-20 percent of students—a minority themselves. Many members of final clubs, too, can justify their affiliation by distancing themselves from the occasional public relations disaster: “He’s not my close friend...
...shock but not a surprise to see Owen Wilson in The Darjeeling Limited, the new semi-comedy from Wes Anderson that had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on Sept. 3. As Francis, the eldest of the three Whitman brothers, he's clearly in physical distress. His head is wrapped in two thick bandages. His nose has a Band-Aid on it. His right hand and wrist are taped, and he uses a cane to walk...