Showdown at Diamond Bar Ranch: rhetoric and ecology on the Southwest range.
What follows is a sort of "rhetoric of geography": an analysis and critique of the environmental and scientific discourse on the Diamond Bar Ranch, one hundred acres of private land commanding livestock access to almost 145,000 acres of public wilderness and a center of environmental conflict in the Southwest...

The road to ruin? "Civilization" and the origins of a "Michigan Road Band" of Potawatomi.
A road can be a very boring thing, until someone wants to build one across your land. Today road building often evokes heated debates over property, commerce, traffic, tradition, and even race and culture. In this regard, little has changed since 1826. The Michigan Road cut through the center...

Somalia.
SOMALIA is the ultimate in 'imagined communities', the failed state whose fissiparous character is unique even in today's splintered world. Situated in the dusty Horn of Africa, this is a country whose Transitional Federal Government (TFG) exists only courtesy of the UN and other African powers, and whose cabinet...

Teaching safety: ramping up bio and ag engineering and technology programs.
Agriculture consistently ranks as one of the nation's most hazardous occupations. Bureau of Labor Statistics data for 2002 place agriculture, forestry, and fishing (22.7 fatalities per 100,000 workers) second behind mining (23.5 fatalities per 100,000 workers). Within the agricultural sector, crop production is most hazardous (37.0 fatalities per 100,000...

'Helen' kills 2, displaces 19,000 in Northern Luzon.
NDCC Executive Director Anthony Golez identified the first casualty as 20-year-old Jonathan Dulay Saliming, who fell into a deep ravine at 9 a.m. while he was driving a dump truck along Balabag Road in Bontoc, Mountain Province. Office of the Civil Defense (OCD) officials in the Cordillera...

Asaf Durakovic: ... a respected scientist fighting on behalf of American Gulf War veterans.
PROFESSOR ASAF DURAKOVIC snaps to his feet as I enter the room. He towers grey-haired with the permanent tan of a fit, outdoor enthusiast and has the military bearing and formal courtesy of another age. When he speaks it's with the confidence of an experienced scientist, which is what...

STATE POLICIES, LOCAL PREJUDICES AND CATTLE RUSTLING ALONG THE GHANA--BURKINA FASO BORDER.
ABSTRACT This article briefly discusses the various factors that gave rise to tension in northern Ghana between Fulbe pastoralists coming in from Burkina Faso and the local Kassena farmers (who have livestock of their own). The Ghanaian government's decision in 1988-89 to expel the Fulbe resulted in...

Palawan university awards exec with honorary doctorate of laws.
The Palawan State University conferred the doctor of laws, honoris causa, on Gov. Joel T. Reyes during its 30th Commencement Exercises last march 31, 2004. The Palawan State University conferred the doctor of laws, honoris causa, on Gov. Joel T. Reyes during its 30th Commencement Exercises last...

Visible and invisible differences: the Somali paradox.
THE COLONIAL AND POST-COLONIAL FRAMEWORK FOR ETHNICITY IN AFRICA Generally, Africa's colonial and post-colonial states share two striking structural features that are often insufficiently emphasised in discussions about their stability. First, as is well known, these 'new nations' were typically accidental aggregates of peoples and tribes thrown...

divine, inc. Announces First Quarter 2001 Results and Provides Update On Recent Acquisitions and New Business Initiatives.
- marchFIRST acquisition expected to add over $200 million to annual software & services revenues - Rapid integration of divine/Whittman-Hart operations includes base of 350 top-tier client companies - Management focus on implementing operating efficiencies while maintaining disciplined use...