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Volume CXXXIII, Number 9 |
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Air Quality Project director Jones speaks on pollution in ME
CONOR WILLIAMS, STAFF WRITER
Recently acquired by energy provider Florida Power and Light, the plant
emits pollutants that have been causally tied to high smog levels, acid
rain, haze issues, nitrification, and global warming, as well as respiratory
health problems. [read the article]
Ecstasy: How dangerous is it?
JEFF BENSON, M.D., STAFF WRITER
With club drugs, you never know exactly what, or how much, you are taking.
Ecstasy, for instance, comes in an amazing array of colors, shapes and
imprinted styles. [read the article]
Profile: Rael's amazing Flight to Freedom
MATTHEW SPOONER, STAFF WRITER
The database of over 750 entries created for the project was designed
around the autobiographies and personal narratives of enslaved African-Americans
who fled bondage in the south. [read the article]
Understanding Central Asia
MATTHEW SPOONER, STAFF WRITER
Wygant, a career diplomat with over 30 years experience, assisted in the
opening of the United State's first embassies in Kazakhstan and Kyrgystan
after the dissolution of the USSR. [read the
article]
Economic Update: Fiscal stimulus and the "R" word
JOHN FITZGERALD, CONTRIBUTOR
Temporary tax cuts for consumers of the $600 rebate type enacted by Mr.
Bush and Congress are unlikely to increase consumer spending by much.
[read the article]
Goodbye to Mr. Pierce, and Sam Fessenden goes to Kansas
KID WONGSRICHANALAI, STAFF WRITER
"I stood on those streets without money," he wrote, "without
friends, and let my thoughts wander back hundreds of miles away to one
family hearthstone, where stood one vacant chair, made so by my thoughtlessness."
[read the article]
"Drop your pants, soldier"
LUDWIG VAN RANG, STAFF WRITER
Since maneuver damage was expected to be considerable Civil Affairs had
its own Command Post Tent, complete with camp beds, pot-bellied stove,
chairs and desk. [read the article]