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...traders to leave Canton, and surrounded them with armed soldiers. Shortly afterwards the traders and their families had to seek refuge aboard British merchant ships at sea, deprived—at least officially—of food and water supplies from shore. When somewhat embellished reports of Chinese soldiers threatening English women and children reached London, there was real fury. For British politics the issue ceased to be opium—about which many people sympathized with China—and became the fate of not just opium traders but also innocent men, women, and children threatened by armed Chinese...
...News decided to publish two of the cartoons on the same day that Associate Dean Judith H. Kidd sent an e-mail to Travis R. Kavulla ‘06-’07, editor of the Salient, warning him that certain communities on- and off- campus could potentially threaten members of the conservative biweekly paper...
...making the right bets on the Internet's future. For one thing, Google has tempted Microsoft into battle by developing new Web-based software and exploring partnerships that could challenge the Seattle giant's desktop dominance. But it's Yahoo!--which has a significantly different vision--that could most threaten Google. At stake is the future of search. For Google, it is all about harnessing the vast power of the Internet to get results as quickly and accurately as possible. (Google maintains tens of thousands of servers to store all those cached Web pages it searches...
...such a way, the grants threaten to lead to a slippery slope, limiting certain fields only to those who can afford them financially. Math and science are specialized fields requiring proficiency with numbers, which not all students may possess. These students should still be able to go to college and pursue their vocational goals—regardless of what field they intend to study and regardless of their financial circumstances...
...SMART grants passed by the House of Representatives therefore have been shown to discriminate against low-income students with no clear national gain. The consequences of the legislation therefore threaten the American ideals of access to unconditional secondary education for all and the right of Americans to make their own choices about their interests and vocations. The grants are thus a grievous error...