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...federal judge ordered Maryland's Worcester County to adopt cumulative voting to elect its five countywide commissioners. The plan would allow each voter to cast five votes as he or she wishes -- for separate candidates or, say, cumulatively for one. The method would give black voters, who constitute 21% of the county's population, a chance to elect a black commissioner without creating a black district. The county plans to appeal...
...police harass, detain and/or arrest Black students, particularly Black males, not only on this campus, but everywhere in this country, is an old method used to make Blacks feel out of place where they feel comfortable and to feel ashamed of their race. Police harassing Black students for rapping in public is consistent with the way the white media criticizes rap music, a unique contribution of Black youth to popular culture. It's a degradation method. History has proven those methods to be effective in some cases. So, I guess white racists should be congratulated for their persistence and unyielding...
Critics both inside and outside the school havecriticized its strong reliance on the "case study"method of teaching. The most recent issue of U.S.News and World Report ranked the school below bothStanford...
...reason the murders go undetected is that suffocation, the usual method of these infanticides, is virtually indistinguishable from SIDS on autopsy. As a result, single deaths don't raise much suspicion. Nor should they. But red flags should snap up when several apparently healthy babies die in one family. "Two SIDS deaths is improbable," observes Di Maio. "But three is impossible." Another sign of possible foul play: repeated bids for medical attention for the children before they die. "Often there's a long medical record of these babies being brought barely breathing to hospitals by the parent who says they...
...ways of solving the problem, TIME asked its mills to substitute a different bleaching process that does not produce any detectable levels of dioxin. Most of the paper in this magazine is now produced that way. We have asked our other suppliers to convert to this safer bleaching method. They are in the process of doing so. Says Refkin: "These issues are extremely important to us. We care about our impact on the environment...