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Dangers
of Duality |
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Political scientist
Bahman Baktiari, a former national foreign affairs advisor and
seasoned commentator on the Mideast, shares his views on Al-Qaeda
and on the conflicts in Iraq, Israel and Palestine. His bottom line:
pay closer attention to what's on the minds of the world's 1.2
billion Muslims. |
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A
Sporting Chance |
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In recent years,
interscholastic sports have been overshadowed by a troubling trend
of out-of-control parents, win-at-all-costs coaches and
student-athletes pressured to perform. A new report, Sports Done
Right, hopes to change that. |
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Oh!
Canada? |
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What do Americans know
about their largest neighboring nation? According to Canadian
Studies experts, too little. |
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Sense
Is |
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Works by 22 of UMaine's leading student artists, exhibited as part
of a senior capstone course, reveal a breadth and depth of talent,
passion, voice and visual vocabulary. |
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Arctic
Dawn |
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On a windswept desert
island in the Arctic sleeps a fossil forest, evidence of a time 45
million years ago when this part of the world was warmer and
100-foot-tall trees thrived. UMaine forest biologist Richard Jagels
wants to know how predecessors of today's dawn redwoods lived and
died. |
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Prehistoric
Swordfishing |
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In the land of birchbark
canoes, the archaeological record clearly shows that prehistoric
peoples in Maine and the Maritimes hunted swordfish. How can this
be? A UMaine anthropologist has spent two decades trying to find the
answer. |
