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...Union workers wore large, round straw hats, the type of which you'd expect to see in a black-and-white 1940's photo of a Chinese farmer. These hats served no purpose whatsoever, except to offend diners. What connection did these hats have to modern day China? How many of these hats were seen in Tiananmen Square? Surely, Harvard would never dare to outfit its employees in Indian headdresses and war paint to celebrate the Native American heritage. Was the use of such hats any different...
Beyond Tolerance decided that its first event--some type of discussion group--will center on the stereotypes different groups have of each other...
...solid because of his political skills: he purged large numbers of his political opponents, as well as the deadwood, at the top of the party. After more than four years of such culling, it seemed to Sovietologists that Gorbachev could not be toppled by traditional Kremlin plotting of the type that ended Nikita Khrushchev's reign in 1964. That analysis leaves open the question of a coup by the security forces, the army and the KGB. There has never been an army coup in Russia or the Soviet Union, but the experts are no longer ruling it out with quite...
...researchers note that some sorts of asbestos are far more dangerous than others and that the safest type is used almost exclusively in U.S. buildings. The bottom line: the risk of dying from smoking, drowning, airplane crashes or even playing high school football is 100 to 1,000 times as great as the risk of dying from asbestos exposure in buildings. "We have known this for two years," complains Mossman, "yet I can still pick up a newspaper that says it's a problem...
...Science authors do not oppose all asbestos removal, but they contend that it should be done only when the level and type of airborne particles are clearly hazardous. Given the cost of asbestos removal -- $20 or more per sq. ft., or 100 times the price of installing it -- that argument should be a weighty one for policymakers...