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Solana Beach is neither a beach nor, for the most part, a typical Southern California tourist destination. Rather, it is a laid-back slouch of a city about 20 miles north of San Diego. But it does have beaches, and on Sunday, around lunchtime, several unfamiliar vehicles pulled into the parking lot of the city's main waterfront area, Fletcher Cove Park...
...with the north-is-good, south-is-bad formula implicit in the tendentious original Mercator. In fact, in 1974, Dr. Arno Peters developed a new projection specifically in response to the inherent racism he saw in the Mercator projection, which disproportionally represents the Northern hemisphere with respect to the Southern one. The segregation of continents is more than a physical issue; it creates ideological and cultural divides so great that linking the two continents now seems to be Turkey’s biggest accomplishment...
...profession are being hung out to dry. "We're left trying to hold the system together like MacGyver - with duct tape and scissors and string." TIME caught up with air traffic controller Melvin S. Davis, a 22-year veteran and the facility representative for Terminal Radar Approach Control for Southern California, which serves airports in Los Angeles, Burbank, Ontario, Orange County, Palm Springs and San Diego...
...extent to which the school benefitted financially from slavery and perpetuated pro-slavery ideology. A number of Yale’s residential colleges, for example, were named after slave owners, most notably Calhoun College, which is named for John C. Calhoun, the South Carolina senator and ardent defender of Southern rights.And that year, Brown President Ruth J. Simmons—the first black president of an Ivy League university—commissioned a panel of students, faculty, and administrators to investigate Brown’s ties to slavery. In 2006, the University issued a Report on Slavery and Justice. According...
...many, the process has descended into farce. For those clinging on to the process, Kony's next chance to come out of the bush is on May 10, when Ugandan elders will return to Southern Sudan to supposedly discuss questions of justice. No one has any idea if he will turn up, and patience, too, is wearing thin, especially among those in the international community, which has paid over $10 million for the process. They complain that for some of the negotiators the process has become more about money and political positioning than resolving the problems of northern Uganda, long...