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...worse by the day and is studiously ignored by politicians. Yet the environment has scarcely featured in the U.S. presidential election. Terrorists and the war in Iraq make better headlines than the removal of toxins from the environment to ensure the health of future generations. Cathie Harrison Nelson, New Zealand Neither Bush nor Kerry (nor Cheney nor Edwards) has the qualities I would like to see in a national leader. Those men are the dregs of what our antiquated two-party system, pushed to its extremes by party operatives, has left us: radical liberals and conservatives and no reasonable moderates...
DIED. GEORGE SILK, 87, a LIFE photographer for three decades; in Norwalk, Conn. A New Zealand native, he joined LIFE during World War II. He was with U.S. forces at the Battle of the Bulge and was the first to photograph the city of Nagasaki after the Japanese city was hit by an atom bomb. After the war, he adapted a photo-finish camera meant for horse racing into an instrument for capturing athletes in motion...
CATHIE HARRISON Nelson, New Zealand...
...DIED. GEORGE SILK, 87, a Life photographer for three decades; in Norwalk, Connecticut. A native of New Zealand, he joined Life during World War II; he was with American forces in the Battle of the Bulge and was the first to photograph the city of Nagasaki, Japan, when it was hit by an atom bomb. After the war, he adapted a photo-finish camera meant for horseracing into an instrument for capturing athletes in motion. In 1972, he was in Nepal on assignment when he got the news that Life had folded; he responded with ?Your message ... badly garbled. Please...
It’s not a surprise for most Harvard students to hear of the diversity of the University endowment’s investments: over $3 billion in the stock market, entire forests in New Zealand, real estate and other assets galore totaling some $22.6 billion. Yet the University’s stock in a Chinese firm doing business with the government in Sudan is raising some eyebrows on campus, and with good reason. As of June 30 of this year, Harvard owned 72,000 shares valued at about $3.87 million in an oil company named PetroChina—almost...