December 2004
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Who goes to Gulu?
Summer 2004
Worldwide attention has recently and rightly been drawn to the genocidal horror under way in the Sudanese Darfur region, but a similar catastrophe is taking place in neighboring Uganda. Rosalind I.J. Hackett, a Rockefeller visiting fellow at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, describes a recent visit to Northern Uganda, in whose bloody guerrilla war 20,000 children have been abducted and 1.8 million people have been driven from their homes. Hackett concludes that “the trampling of the people of Northern Uganda, notably the children, youth and women, is a blight upon the country, upon the continent, as well as our shared humanity.” >
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What to do about Iran?
August 8, 2004
The reelection of President Bush, who included Iran in his “axis of evil,” will certainly amplify the public discussion on appropriate U.S. policies toward that nation. George A. Lopez, Senior Fellow and Director of Policy Studies, Kroc Institute has some
ideas. >
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Evidence of things not seen
November 11, 2004
Notre Dame faculty members are increasingly prominent in an emerging field which marries nanoscience to biotechnology. The potential of this hybrid discipline is far reaching and astonishing. >
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Unspeakable sins
November 5, 2004
During his tenure as cardinal archbishop of Boston, Bernard Law vigorously defended the position of the Catholic Church on abortion, which is sometimes described as an “unspeakable” act in authoritative church teaching. All the while, it turns out, the cardinal was turning a blind eye to another act that most people consider “unspeakable”-the sexual abuse of children or adolescents by Catholic priests within his archdiocese. >
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When vision becomes reality
Fall 2004
“Orphan diseases” are so nicknamed because large pharmaceutical companies discern no potential profits in finding and developing cures for them. The intellectual curiosity, generous collegiality, and social compassion of some Notre Dame scientists promises
a more conscionable
approach. >
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Describing the dismal science
October 18, 2004
A Notre Dame economist argues for an entirely new approach to his chosen discipline. >
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Research effort may solve sewer problem
August 26, 2004
Jeffrey W. Talley, an assistant professor of civil engineering and geological sciences, is leading a team of researchers in an effort to develop a novel technology to address the reluctantly examined public health threat posed by “combined sewer outflow.” >
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The Butterfly Effect
October 29, 2004
A Notre Dame biologist’s fascination with butterflies leads to far reaching and consequential insights. >
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Literature withstanding technology
November 4, 2004
The dean of Notre Dame’s College of Arts and Letters assures us that the value and significance of literature will transcend the technological upheavals of our age. >
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