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Thursday, August 9, 2001
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A Survivor of the Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki Speaks of Her Experiences 56 Years Ago Today
56 years ago this week the US dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. On August 6 the U.S. dropped abomb on Hiroshima, killing 140,000 people in the world’s first nuclear assault. Pilot Claude Tibbets named the planethat dropped that bomb Enola Gay after his mother.
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The Story of Minik, the Inuit Boy Taken From His Home and Put On Display in the Museum Ofnatural History
Yesterday, we heard part of the story of Minik, a young Inuit (which we know better as Eskimo) from northwesternGreenland. In 1897, the American explorer Robert Peary brought Minik, his father and four others to New York andpresented them to the American Museum of Natural History as one of six Eskimo "specimens." Four members of the group,including Minik’s father Qisuk, quickly died of exposure to strains of influenza to which they had little resistance.
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Federal Judges in San Francisco Resist Attempts to Surveil Them and Their Co-Workers; Bigbrother’s Corporate Cousin: Christian Parenti On the Politics and History of Everyday Surveillance
It’s not just union activists and political dissidents who are upset at the proliferation of surveillance in theworkplace. Now a group of judges with the Ninth District Court of Appeals in San Francisco are waging a campaign ofresistance against government attempts to monitor them and their colleagues at work.
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