Word: states
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...sometimes, although rarely, defuse violence. But not in war. Without Charles Martel's victory over the Muslims at Poitiers in 732, Western civilization might never have existed. Without Charlemagne's tireless campaigning, we would never have thought of a united Europe. War will stop only when a continual state of nationalistic flux ends. Peace will not be brought by a return to religion, for it has been at the heart of more wars than secular causes. JAMES SCOFIELD Olympia, Wash...
...Philippines, virtually the same scenario as in Kosovo has occurred to the Filipino Muslims in Mindanao. The Muslims want their independence from the Philippine government to build their own state. This has been the cause of discord here. Peace cannot be achieved through war. Mindanao should remain part of the Philippines, just as Kosovo should stay within Yugoslavia. JOSE FREDERICK P. FLORESE Makati City, the Philippines...
...people who brought you last week's blitzkrieg of antismoking billboards may have an unlikely forebear: ADOLF HITLER. In his forthcoming The Nazi War on Cancer (Princeton University Press), Penn State history professor ROBERT N. PROCTOR suggests that Nazi researchers were the first to recognize the connection between cancer and cigarettes. The prevailing view was that British and American scientists established the lung-cancer link during the early 1950s. In fact, says Proctor, "the Nazis conducted world-class studies in this field." But their findings, because of the abhorrent medical practices used by the regime, were ignored. Hitler, a teetotaling...
...parents. Project race (Reclassify All Children Equally)--a campaign started by Ryan Graham, a biracial Florida teenager, and his mother Susan--has won changes in the act college-entrance-exam forms and some minor alterations in the U.S. Census form as well as on some local and state government forms. But most of society has not yet taken to the concept of biracial identity. Most government forms don't include a multiracial box, and it's usually up to the parent to make sure a child isn't compartmentalized. "I tell my kids that if somebody gives them a hard...
...Percentage of motorists stopped by New Jersey state police patrolling various regions of the state in 1997 and 1998 who were black...