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...science becomes more of a part of the modern world, we must expand the ways in which we collectively discuss the political issues that surround science and technology," said Kirchhoff, who is also a Crimson editor...
Shrrie Elliot, one of Diallo's neighbors, was walking home past Diallo's apartment on the night of the shooting and says she saw the four plainclothes officers climb out of their car, guns drawn, and surround Diallo's entryway. Defense lawyers had hoped that Elliot, an unwilling witness, would provide a key piece of information and leave it at that. She obliged to a certain extent, saying she heard someone yell "Gun!" before the shooting began. That cry, the defense team contends, is evidence the police saw Diallo as a threat and were justified in firing on the unarmed...
...fate. His American family, which purports to have his best interests at heart, quickly lost the moral high ground. Elin was paraded before Miami television cameras on a daily basis. Invited by the family, the cameras followed the boy to school, to Universal Studios, on shopping outings. Cameras surround his house at all hours of the day. His status--not his welfare--became the subject of intense protests by the Cuban-American, anti-Castro community in America. Cold-hearted politicians, eager to exploit the situation for political gain, quickly joined in the fun, subsuming the Department of Immigration and Naturalization...
...proposals but tend to come around once the homes are built. "It's pretty cool," says Ken Tate, 40, who lives across the street from Southside Park. "More neighborhoods should group together like that." Although drug deals go down daily on the sagging porches and litter-strewn sidewalks that surround Southside, no one has ever broken into one of its houses. There are too many watchful eyes...
Police have little to fear from the 240 Humane Society activists, dressed in turtle costumes, set to protest the WTO's shrimp-export decision. Nor are they worried about the human chain of hand-holding clergy and parishioners who will surround the delegates' reception Monday to plead for Third World debt relief. But scores of "radical jeerleaders" are practicing their choreographed cheers in church basements: "Smash the state/ Let's liberate!" Four Molotov cocktails were lobbed into an empty Gap store in downtown Seattle this month, Gap being a focus of antisweatshop protests. No wonder the city has budgeted...