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Alternative (or "complementary") currencies range from quaint to robust, simple to high tech. There are Greens from the Lettuce Patch Bank at the Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage in rural northeastern Missouri. In western Massachusetts one finds fine-artist-designed BerkShares, which are convertible to U.S. dollars. More than $2 million in BerkShares have been issued through the 12 branches of five local banks, according to Susan Witt, executive director of the E.F. Schumacher Society, the nonprofit behind the currency. And in South Africa, proprietary software keeps track of Community Exchange System (CES) Talents; one ambitious plan is to make Khayelitsha...
...crowd was great [Saturday],” Lavoie said. “They really got us pumped up and excited.” Harvard was especially thirsty for a win this weekend, coming off of a split in last weekend’s doubleheader. After defeating Western Ontario 7-2, the team lost to Ancient Eight rival Cornell 6-3. “We were really fired up going into the match,” Lavoie said. “We knew it was going to be close, and coming off the Cornell loss, we really wanted a victory...
...Despite the focus on the Soviet Union, Katsnelson believes that the exhibit covers issues beyond Russian studies, Soviet history, and art history. “What I’m trying to show here is that art can be political,” Katsnelson says. “The Western world is very privileged. It often forgets how precious freedom of expression is, how rare it is in many countries, and how powerful...
...Beydulla is a political refugee in the United States and a Uyghur (pronounced WEE-gurr). Uyghurs are a minority in Western China who, like the Tibetans, are engaged in a struggle against the Chinese government for increased freedoms. During the 2007-2008 academic year, he participated in the Scholars at Risk program at Harvard and is now a language teacher for the East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department...
...Physically, Han Chinese, the majority population in China, look little like Uyghurs. Uyghurs’ skin color is more tan and eye and hair color more varied, with facial structures more stereotypically Western. Because of such physical differences, Uyghurs are often asked to infiltrate on behalf of the Chinese government “because the Chinese cannot,” Beydulla said...