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Second Annual Multi-Cultural Workshops and Media Fair (1999)
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The Perils of Industrial Pig Farming
North Carolina is one the nation\u27s several major meat-producing states. Why should we be much concerned about the lives of animals that were being raised for slaughter in the massive food industry? In fact, there is very much more at stake
U.S. Census Nears; Results to be Questioned
It is the largest peacetime activity of the United States government, and since its inception in 190 takes place every 10 years. It will employ, at its peak, 860,000 workers who will receive a major portion of the $4.5 billion that Congress recently appropriated for the task. And the total population will be recorded for one day, a far cry from the 18 months that were necessary for U.S. Marshals who tried to find everyone in 1790
John H. Bracey, Jr.: The Cost of Racism to White America (1999)
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Census Bureau Seeks Partners in Business
By now you should have seen the advertisements for the U.S. Census Bureau to apprise us of the forthcoming census on April 1, 2000. And there will be plenty more since the Bureau has budgeted $167 million on this push for public awareness, something it has never perviously paid to do
Transitional States and Psychic Change
One of my favorite scenes in literature occurs in D. H. Lawrence\u27s novel The Rainbow (1915). Tom Brangwen\u27s Polish wife Lydia is upstairs in their home giving birth. Tom is downstairs with Anna, Lydia\u27s four-year-old child by her first marriage. Anna is panic-stricken, screaming in terror for her mother, and Tom is responding to her with irritation and mounting anger. Like the child, he too is feeling shut out and abandoned by Lydia. Tom is made particularly furious by the blind and mechanical nature of Anna\u27s crying
Alan Shawn Feinstein, Graduate Commencement Speaker, 1999
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What\u27s News At Rhode Island College
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Senator Jack Reed, Undergraduate Commencement Speaker, 1999
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