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...divestment from the oil companies with operations in Nigeria due to the human rights violations being committed in this country. Renewing the call for divestment from Shell Oil and other oil corporations operating in Nigeria sends the message to these companies to begin involving local citizens in the Niger Delta Region in the decision making processes of oil extraction, and to uphold financial, social, and environmental responsibility to these same communities. FRANK J. GORKE April...
...divestment from the oil companies with operations in Nigeria due to the human rights violations being committed in this country. Renewing the call for divestment from Shell Oil and other oil corporations operating in Nigeria sends the message to these companies to begin involving local citizens in the Niger Delta Region in the decision making processes of oil extraction, and to uphold financial, social, and environmental responsibility to these same communities...
...feet long, built like a T. rex, a hundred teeth sharp as razors, claws the size of your foot. He's Suchomimus tererensis, an entirely new breed of dinosaur to be unveiled Friday in the journal Science. Suchomimus was discovered -? bit by fossilized bit -? by paleontologist Paul Sereno in Niger, Africa, last year. Now that he's been shipped whole to the States, the world will hear him roar. "With its forearms and its jaws, it would have been able to take down just about anything," said Sereno, a professor at the University of Chicago. "It was the dominant predator...
What is most sobering, not to say appalling, is to find no fewer than seven pages of entries devoted to the wretched N word. Its earliest recorded use, in 1574, was spelled niger, early modern English meaning "black in color." There was a time--hard to believe--that the term was considered inoffensive. Over the years, it evolved a huge number of variations, all pejorative, but not, apparently, until the 20th century did it become so execrable a term of opprobrium, especially among whites. Ironically, as Lighter says, many blacks use the N word as an "affectionate, ironic, jocular...
...based upon some very brave and insightful field research conducted under very challenging circumstances to say the least," Matory said. "Both the Committee on African Studies, generally, which funded her field research, and I, personally, feared for her safety because...there is a war of secession going on in Niger...