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...GULF. Because it is virtually an enclosed basin, with an outlet to the sea only 35 miles wide at the Strait of Hormuz, the gulf is especially vulnerable to oil spills. In a body of water badly contaminated by tankers, garbage and sewage, a disastrous spill of the kind that Iraq caused last week could destroy nesting areas for endangered sea turtles and spawning grounds for shrimp while poisoning tuna, snapper, sardines and anchovies, which are vital to local fishermen. "The ecosystems are endangered anyway," says Frank Barnaby, former director of the Stockholm Peace Research Institute. "Another million barrels...
Most of the conflicts, in one way or another, grow out of a commitment to the land. Despite anthropologists' evidence that they came to this country across the Bering Strait land bridge, many tribes believe their ancestors emerged from an underworld through a hole in the earth known as the sipapu. Their religion, their art and their well-being are tied to the land they have guarded and revered. Now, many generations after white settlers bribed, swindled and threatened thousands of Native Americans out of millions of acres, they are determined to seek restitution...
...there has been some discussion in the house, and there may be some mild form of protest--I don't know," said David S. Strait '91, the Dunster House Committee chair, who was not at the meeting...
...time, it really was a big deal," says David S. Strait '91, co-chair of the Dunster House Committee. "We got very serious calls telling us to stop selling the shirts...
...Chair of the Dunster House Committee David S. Strait '91, describing the 350th anniversary of the term of the University's first president, Henry Dunster...