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...This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] DEATH RATE Samoa 7 12.14 Mariana Island 5 5.91 U.S. Virgin Island 6 5.53 Palau 1 4.80 Guam 6 3.46 Vermont 19 3.06 Micronesia 3 2.78 Alaska...
...should we celebrate all these celebrations? Yes, says William Paden, the author of Religious Worlds: The Comparative Study of Religion and a professor at the University of Vermont - at least to the extent that we revere the drive to carve out sacred time in the middle of the day-by-day profane. "Each of these religions is creating its own world, with its own time and space and memory system," he says. They recognize what's of real value, and they encode it, and it forms an architecture of memory." Yes, says Bruce Lawrence, the head of Islamic Studies...
...Sullivan has worked closely with almost every power player to come through Iraq and counts some among her personal friends. Earlier this month, O’Sullivan went skiing in Vermont with Bremer and his wife...
...activism as “the fallout period” after enthusiasm stagnated in the aftermath of Massachusetts’ 2003 legalization of gay marriage. To date, Massachusetts is the only state where gay marriage is legal, though several other states in New England—like Vermont, Connecticut, and New Hampshire—permit civil unions.Yet Brooks insists that these local victories aren’t as revolutionary as they seem. Lamenting the myopic view of gay rights held by many within the community, Brooks argues that while marriage equality may constitute equal rights from a legal perspective, there...
...time, he is speaking of the past - the fire he narrowly escaped on the U.S.S. Forrestal in 1967 or the the five years of torture and confinement he survived in Hanoi. But that luck continues to this day. His victories Tuesday in Ohio, Texas, Rhode Island and Vermont sealed for him both the Republican nomination and one of the most remarkable runs in modern political history...