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...Luis Obispo County - Strobridge is worried about the impact the power plants will have on endangered species such as the San Joaquin kit fox. He is also concerned about the effect on dwindling water supplies as well as the more intangible treasures of the area: the unimpeded views, the stark silence, the rustic natural beauty, the huge wilderness area called the Carrizo Plain National Monument just down the valley - that is, just about everything that led him to buy the property 10 years ago. (Read a story on mapping the best solar-energy sites...
...Darkness” (which Johnny Cash liked so much he later recorded his own version with Oldham on backup) toward more polished studio trimmings. But in pulling in all the extra instruments (marimba, flute, tenor saxophone, and accordian, to name a few) it loses something of the stark devastation that gave voice to America’s stranger corners of existence. The album’s title should in the end serve as a warning to Oldham himself—amidst all the banjos and choirs, the warm shadowy spaces between the words may be lost...
...could be difficult to do within the short time frame,” Calareso said. She added that the committee should soon be seeing proposals coming out of graduate seminars, which were designed to develop courses for the General Education program. —Staff writer Rachel A. Stark can be reached at rstark@fas.harvard.edu...
...sure students will have good offerings. The other newly-developed course—Societies of the World 20: “China in the Wider World 1600-2000”—has yet to post a description. —Staff writer Rachel A. Stark can be reached at rstark@fas.harvard.edu
...residents suffer from HIV or AIDS - a figure that ranks as the highest in the nation and far outstrips the 1% benchmark at which a health issue becomes a "generalized and severe" epidemic. The district's HIV/AIDS administration director, Shannon Hader, couched the severity of the problem in stark terms, noting the city's rate of infection surpasses those in West Africa and is "on par with Uganda and some parts of Kenya." The most disquieting part? Things may be getting worse. (See photos of Africa's AIDS crisis...