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...Archaeologists always tell us where we came from," says Rochanne Downs, a coordinator for the dozens of Indian tribes that have banded together in the Great Basin Inter-Tribal NAGPRA Coalition. "Well, we know where we came from. Our people were made from mud, and then the tribes were sent out. Sometimes people think that's funny, but when I look at the Immaculate Conception, that seems kind of odd to me." Not all Indians believe in the ancient-clay idea, but if those who do are going to be shown the same respect as the adherents of any other...
...April’s landmark decision to divest from PetroChina, the University has maintained its investments in other companies linked to Sudan, including Sinopec, an oil firm accused of close ties to the Khartoum regime.Sinopec is the major contractor on a pipeline that will carry oil from the Melut Basin in southern Sudan to a Red Sea port—a project that could boost Sudan’s petroleum exports substantially, according to a December 2004 Washington Post report.At the end of last year, Harvard owned 134,050 Sinopec shares—a stake that was worth about...
...PetroChina’s parent company.“Sinopec is essentially a contractor, whereas CNPC actually owns the lead shares in the consortium that runs Sudan’s oil patch,” Goodman wrote. Sinopec is in the process of building a pipeline from the Melut Basin of southern Sudan to a Red Sea tanker terminal, according to an article by Goodman in the Washington Post from December 2004. A report from Reuters in October 2004 said that Sinopec bought a six percent share of two oil blocks in the eastern Upper Nile region of Sudan.Yale...
...Europe's premier collections of Chinese art - a coherent, chronological trove of works from the Neolithic period to the 13th century. Cernuschi loved ancient bronzes - decorative, ceremonial and technologically sophisticated artifacts from China's earliest history. Among his acquisitions in the museum's extensive bronze collection is an enormous basin from the 6th century B.C., the largest of its kind outside China. But the true bronze masterpiece is a work older by some 600 years, the so-called Tigress you (wine vessel), which the museum bought after its patron's death. The vase, from the Shang dynasty (roughly...
Rita's eye took dead aim at the already debilitated Sabine Basin, which lies between Port Arthur, Texas, and Lake...