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...summer session at Gallaudet University. A few lazy clouds threaten to water the already green campus and bathe a modest statue of founder Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet. Off the main quad, an orange steam shovel dips, lifts and pivots, grumbling to itself. Few students hear it. Gallaudet is the country's foremost college for deaf people. When Jim Haynes, at work nearby, instructs his philosophy class that "Plato argued that the concept behind this desk is more real than the physical thing itself," he does so manually, in crisp American Sign Language (ASL). His 12 students watch his hands intently, with...
...Harvard Square has been prime real estate for longer than the United States has been a country, but in recent years rents have spiraled so drastically as to threaten a profound change to the landscape...
...list, there's also a deeper divide between the U.S. and most of the other members of the Security Council over the purpose of sanctions. They were originally put in place to force Saddam to comply with the an arms inspection regime designed to eliminate Baghdad's ability to threaten its neighbors and its restive citizens with weapons of mass destruction. But it's been two years since there have been weapons inspectors in Iraq, and Saddam isn't likely to allow them back any time soon. While his civilian population bears the brunt of the suffering, Saddam...
...spread beyond the villages around the mining site. The processing units are highly mobile, with some located as far as 50 km away, says Rini Sulaiman, an environmental toxicologist with the U.S.-funded National Resources Management Program. And that, says Daniel Limbong, means the mercury contamination will eventually threaten the 400,000 people living in Manado. It could be happening already. According to Limbong, samples taken from sediment in the estuary of the Talawaan river where it empties in Manado Bay are almost at the levels seen in samples taken where the river passes the mine site, about...
...power. As part of the hotly debated national energy plan that he unveiled last week, President George Bush called nuclear energy "a major component" of any solution. Critics, not surprisingly, say the comeback of the $43 billion-a-year industry is a step in the wrong direction that will threaten the environment as well as public health and safety. Nor did the Administration's unexpected recommendation to take another look at reprocessing spent nuclear fuel get a particularly warm reaction...