PERSECUTION OF ALBINISM IN TANZANIA
Vumilia Makoye was like many other Tanzanians living with albinism. Due to her severe near-sightedness as well as constant ridicule borne from her peers' ignorance, school was a constant challenge. She dropped out by age 17. One evening, Vumilia was eating dinner at home with her family in Tanzania when men approached her hut with long knives.
BHOPAL: THE SEARCH FOR JUSTICE
This paper aims to answer the fundamental question regarding the litigation that took place after the Bhopal gas leak: was justice served? After first reviewing the events of the evening of the gas leak, citing relevant facts and figures, I go on to establish a jurisprudential basis on which we can analyze the court rulings. After doing this, we can compare historical payouts in judicially similar cases with the Bhopal case and establish the clear injustice that was served to the Bhopal victims. Then we look back to what could have been done, or what may still be done.
THE FUTURE OF THE PEOPLE'S LIBERATION ARMY NAVY AND CHINESE GRAND STRATEGY
China expert Dr. Tai Ming Cheung at the UCSD School of International Relations and Pacific Studies talks future of Chinese grand strategy. By Taylor Marvin, Staff Writer.
THE FUTURE OF THE PEOPLE'S LIBERATION ARMY NAVY AND CHINESE GRAND STRATEGY
China expert Dr. Tai Ming Cheung at the UCSD School of International Relations and Pacific Studies talks future of Chinese grand strategy. By Taylor Marvin, Staff Writer.
SREBRENICA 15 YEARS LATER
The July 1995 massacre and murder of 8000 Bosnian men and boys in the eastern Bosnian city of Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina continues to be a stain on humanity. More than seventy major mass graves have been located in Bosnia-Herzegovina containing civilians killed during the worst war crimes in Europe since the days of World War Two.
WARTIME DRUGS
During war, people from an array of disciplines, including chemists, clinicians, engineers, and pharmacologists, are enlisted to speed production of so-called wartime drugs. A common belief is that war stimulates the advancement of medicine, and justly so, seeing how governments pour billions of dollars into medical research as war increases the amount of individuals in need of healing.
CUTTING US DEFENSE SPENDING IS NOT A THREAT TO AMERICAN SECURITY
Despite efforts by conservative lawmakers to depict US defense cuts as a dire threat to American security, carefully considered reductions in the US governments bloated military budget are not dangerous, and America's looming fiscal challenges makes them necessary.
PROSTHETICS UNDER TRIALS OF WAR
According to Katherine Ott, curator in the Science, Medicine, and Society Division of the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, “[t]he material and social tales of prosthetics provide a more intimate and compelling history of embodied technology than any postmodern cyborg can account for: from the ivory, leather [...]
WHAT SOVIET NAVAL HISTORY CAN TELL US ABOUT CHINA'S NEW CARRIER
The Soviet Navy struggled for decades to attain aircraft carriers comparable to those fielded by their American adversaries. While political indifference and chronic funding conflicts prevented the Red Navy from producing supercarriers on the American model, by the 1980s the USSR was able to attain a carrier force. The compromises inherent in these designs have been inherited by China's new pioneering aircraft carrier -- which is based on a Soviet design -- and the USSR's struggles to field a carrier fleet may provide insights to the future of China's naval ambitions.
WHAT SOVIET NAVAL HISTORY CAN TELL US ABOUT CHINA'S NEW CARRIER
The Soviet Navy struggled for decades to attain aircraft carriers comparable to those fielded by their American adversaries. While political indifference and chronic funding conflicts prevented the Red Navy from producing supercarriers on the American model, by the 1980s the USSR was able to attain a carrier force. The compromises inherent in these designs have been inherited by China's new pioneering aircraft carrier -- which is based on a Soviet design -- and the USSR's struggles to field a carrier fleet may provide insights to the future of China's naval ambitions.
BEYOND POLITICAL UPHEAVAL: YEMEN'S LOOMING ECONOMIC AND DEMOGRAPHIC PROBLEMS
By Joseph NatividadStaff WriterAs Yemen teeters on the brink of state failure, the political chaos it has experienced in recent months coincides with its looming economic and demographic challenges. Despite questions over the future of President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s rule as he recuperates outside [...]
BEYOND POLITICAL UPHEAVAL: YEMEN'S LOOMING ECONOMIC AND DEMOGRAPHIC PROBLEMS
By Joseph NatividadStaff WriterAs Yemen teeters on the brink of state failure, the political chaos it has experienced in recent months coincides with its looming economic and demographic challenges. Despite questions over the future of President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s rule as he recuperates outside [...]