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One Child Policy
by: Ben Hays - printed on 11-07-2001
People pack the streets of China everyday from sunup to sundown. Bicycles fill the lanes with a steady blur of baskets and business suits. The sound of ringers is a constant melody, with the addition of a few mopeds thrown in for an offbeat. This is a typical day for Chinese people, who migrate to work through a sea of people. With China?s large population of over 1.2 billion, how could it ever change?
Population decrease has already begun when the Chinese government imposed a One Child Policy in 1978.
Debunking the feminist myth
by: Christy Scheuer - printed on 09-25-2002
Feminism. Oh, the difference a word can make! The word feminism is fraught with negative implications, obscured by layers of stereotypes. Many people hesitate to call themselves feminists for fear of others’ scorn and derision.
Illness, coverup at Umatilla Chapter one of five: setting the stage-- workers fall ill and questions arise.
by: Jim McCandlish, J.D. - printed on 11-03-2000
Congratulations. You live 175 miles west of where 12% of our nation’s stockpile of chemical weaponry is stored at the Umatilla Chemical Depot near Hermiston in northeastern Oregon.
A deadly nerve gas called "sarin" (injuring 5500 and killing 12 in the 1995 Tokyo subway attack) and a blister agent called "mustard" (popularized by the Germans in WW I) are stored in an area known as "K Block"--89 earth-bermed igloos (also called "bunkers") in a geometric configuration worthy of thegarden at Versailles.
An Indian, a Peckerwood, and a Higher Power
by: Ryan Bemis - printed on 02-14-2001
“Man on the left!” warns Andy.
I jump at his startling tone.
“Will you stop saying that everytime you see a police car!” I tell him.
The fact is, Andy can’t. He grew up in a small Californian reservation shantytown where cops beat him because he was a hotheaded Indian boy. The sight of a cop begets an impulsive “watch your back” mood.
Today, Andy recovers from the deadly disease of alcoholism.
When life on the streets meets the yellowbrick road
by: Erin Goodling - printed on 02-27-2002
What began as a mild interest in the homeless issues of Portland (thanks to my morning bike commute past Dignity Village, Portland's tent city), soon became a logistical understanding of homeless youth services in Portland (thanks to a term paper for Br. Stabrowski's Urban Politics class at the University of Portland). Shortly thereafter, I found out that my friend, Scott, works at Yellow Brick Road, the street outreach component of Willamette Bridge Youth Services.
China’s Environment versus Economy
by: Jefferson Azevedo - printed on 10-10-2001
It is impossible to talk about China without taking into account the environmental problem. With a population of about 1.2 billion people – one out of every five human beings in the world – China alone has the potential to raise the greenhouse effect to levels far beyond scientists’ worst nightmares. And this is considering that its population, four times as big as that of the United States, uses only half as much energy and resources as America does.