The resignation also threatens U.S.-led efforts to revive Middle East peacemaking. Nothing has been simple in America's preoccupation with race, and now there's a new twist. Beginning in 2000, the Census Bureau will let citizens with multiracial heritages check more than one racial category on their census forms and other federal government documents. For her, growing up biracial on the city's east side presented anxieties and dilemmas. That's the question lawyers will address beginning today when they start making a case to jurors in the trial of the Unabomber defendant.
Prosecutors are likely to portray the onetime mathematics prodigy as a calculating killer.
Writer finds homeland forever changed by long civil war I went to Liberia to mourn the death of my mother. I left mourning the death of the country I once knew. By the time I got to the West African nation, the place where I grew up, my mother had been buried almost a week. Balloonist Steve Fossett, plagued with equipment problems that left him shivering in the cockpit, decided to end his third attempt to fly around the earth early Monday. A blitz of commemorative postage stamps recalling the century's first two decades will be available soon at local post offices.