With The World Around Him Exploding
After 9/11, Zalmai Yawar Was Suddenly A Valuable Commodity - As A Translator For The Journalists Who Were Flooding His Homeland. Now He's An Ordinary Amherst College Student Who Also Happens To
Be Among Those Responsible For Just How Much Many Of Us Know About Afghan Culture.
The Discovery
At Mount Holyoke College Of A Collection Of Fetuses In Jars Underscores How Perceptions Change Over Time. The Specimens Were
Once Used For Routine Study, But Today, After Decades Of Debate Over Abortion, They Elicit A Very Different Reaction
Patricia Silver
Quit Her Teaching Job At One College When She Tired Of Being " The Token Hillbilly." Now A Umass-Amherst Professor, She Offers
A Course On Class In America And Has Collected Stories About Other Academics With Roots In The Mines.
