Thursday show 01-29-15
Brook Farm
Brook Farm, the most
famous utopian community in America, was founded by Unitarian
minister and author George Ripley and his wife Sophia in rural West
Roxbury, Massachusetts in 1841. The Ripleys were interested in a more
balanced society where equality was the norm and class distinction
and wage discrepancy were not.
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Colorado to California:
Hands off our water
Colorado is moving to
keep tighter control over its own water supply, rankling
drought-stricken western states like California. n the process,
Colorado is learning a valuable lesson in interstate diplomacy.
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Gun ban on Muslims
draws fire
In the five months
since Jan Morgan banned Muslims from her gun range in Hot Springs,
Ark., business has boomed and predictions of a lawsuit brought by
federal civil rights enforcers have so far proved inaccurate.
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The American Jewish
Experience through the Nineteenth Century: Immigration and
Acculturation
American Jewish history
commenced in 1492 with the expulsion of Jews from Spain. This action
set off a period of intense Jewish migration. Seeking to escape the
clutches of the Holy Inquisition, some Jews in the sixteenth century
sought refuge in the young Calvinist republic of The Netherlands. A
century later, hundreds of their descendants crossed the ocean to
settle in the new Dutch colony of Recife in Brazil, where Jewish
communal life became possible for the first time in the New World.
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Illegal Experiments on
Children Reminisent of Josef Mengele
The U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency paid the University of Southern California and the
University of California, Los Angeles to conduct experiments on
children, to determine whether exposure to diesel exhaust harms
humans. These experiments are illegal under the Nuremberg Code,
California state law, and federal regulations, concerning the
protection of human subjects in medical research, according to Energy
and Environmental Legal Institute attorney David Schnare.
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