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Analysis and Commentary
Great Lakes Water Diversion Thorny Issue With Great Lakes water levels recovering, conservationists and environmentalists are concerned about how proposals to increase diversions and withdrawals might conflict with protecting the world’s largest resource of surface freshwater. All eight states in the Great Lakes region, which also includes the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec, have communities in need of additional water supplies for public use, business and future sub-divisions and golf courses -- and they all look to the lakes to solve their problems. Touring the Great Lakes by boat it seems the water is infinite. It is not. The Great Lakes comprise 95 percent of the surface fresh water in the United States -- 20 percent of the world’s supply -- a non-renewable natural resource created by retreating glaciers requiring diligent management.. The AIDS Battlefield: Where Politics and Science Must Join Forces When the first gathering of scientists aimed at sharing information on HIV was held in 1985, it was predominantly a meeting of researchers and scientists sharing data and techniques about drug research and development, and treatment protocols. The news coverage of the early conferences was important, but not that widespread. News from the XV International AIDS Conference this year revolved mainly around politics. This is the first year in which a complete Leadership Programed complimented the Scientific and Community Programs. One aspect of the Leadership Program consisted of interactive sessions where leaders discussed difficult challenges in the global response to HIV/AIDS... Senator Strom Thurmond and Daughter Essie Mae Williams: An American Story It is the circumstances resulting from the birth and life of Ms. Williams and how they may have influenced the seeming contradictions in Thurmond's politics and philosophy that are the subject of this commentary. The late James Strom thurmond was born on December 5, 1902 in Edgefield, South Carolina, the son of John William and Eleanor Gertrude (Strom) Thurmond. Educated in the Edgefield County public school system, he graduated from Clemson College (now Clemson University) in 1923 with a degree in horticulture, and subsequently worked as a farmer, teacher, and athletic coach. He was admitted to the South Carolina Bar in 1930, and served as the Edgefield Town and county attorney from 1930-1938. He married his firest wife, Miss Jean Crouch, in 1947, but they had no children. Several years after the death of his first wife, he married Nancy Janice Moore (1946-), on December 22, 1968, and they had four children... |
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