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Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies
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 Nancy Rose Hunt, University of Michigan
Abstract: When is it helpful to think about formal problems as some of the materials with which we shape our histories? Professor Hunt will share a few of her writing tactics, worked out while grappling with a troubling history. It could well have taken the easy form of event-aftermath, given the widespread childlessness found in Belgian Africa's equatorial forests from the 1930s, following iconic imperial violence—(think: Joseph Conrad, Roger Casement, rubber, cut-off human hands)—during Congo's early rapacious years.
Instead of one arc about warfare, medicine, and suffering, Nancy Hunt has traced two crossed lines of evidence about power, nervousness, and words. As flywhisks suggest, vernacular motion surfaced with suggestions of clearing, ridding, ousting. Concepts, like reverie and repetition, became working materials. Yet narrative adhesion came from poetic bits, from tracking figurations and stories that enabled hints and contours of anger, jauntiness, dreams, and interior points of view.
Biography: A specialist of history and anthropology in Africa, Nancy Rose Hunt focuses on matters medical, therapeutic, and gender, while paying attention to material objects, everyday technologies, visual culture, and violence. She has published articles and essays on reproductive politics, breastfeeding, nursing, letter-writing, bicycles, comics, and power in colonial situations; as well as on abortion in African novels; colonial technologies and postcolonial debris; and the acoustics of war and humanitarianism. Her first book, an ethnographic history set in the Belgian Congo and then Zaire, A Colonial Lexicon: Of Birth Work, Medicalization, and Mobility (Duke,1999), received the Herskovits Book Prize in 2000. A Nervous State: Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial Congo (Duke, forthcoming) analyses two intertwined domains--the securitization of therapeutic insurgency, and the medicalization of infertility--in a part of the Belgian Congo (1908-60), which became iconic as a zone of rubber extraction, war, and horrrific violence in the period when Congo was King Leopold's Free State (1885-1908). She is also working on a condensed world history of health and medicine for Oxford University Press.
Since 1985, she has done field research and taught in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, and Burundi, under Social Science Research Council and Fulbright fellowships. A Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in 2001-02 and at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin in 2010-11, she was named a CICS Human Rights Faculty Fellow at Michigan for 2012-2013.
Free and open to the public.
This lecture is part of the Thursday Speaker Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.


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Otters are one of our top predators, feeding mainly on fish, waterbirds, amphibians and crustaceans. Otters have their cubs in underground burrows, known as a 'holt'. Excellent and lithe swimmers, the young are in the water by 10 weeks of age. Otters are well suited to a life on the water as they have webbed feet, dense fur to keep them warm and can close their ears and nose when underwater. For the best chances of seeing an otter in the wild, try the west coast of Scotland, the Shetland Islands or some parts of Wales, northern England and East Anglia.
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Otters can be distinguished from Mink by their much larger size, more powerful body, paler grey-brown fur, broader snout and broader, pale chest and throat.
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BOSTON (AP) Wesley Saunders posted his first collegiate double-double with 15 points and a career-high 11 assists as Harvard held off Yale 67-64 Friday night to remain undefeated in Ivy League play.
Harvard (11-6, 3-0) led by 15 in the first half and 13 in the second before the Bulldogs (7-13, 1-2) closed the gap to three, at 63-60, on Armani Cotton's layup with 19 seconds left.
Steve Moundou-Missi hit two free throws a second later, then blocked Michael Grace's jump shot. Yale's Matt Townsend was fouled on the rebound, hitting two free throws.
After Siyani Chambers gave Harvard a cushion with two foul shots with 3 seconds remaining, Austin Morgan's last-second layup provided the final margin.
Laurent Rivard added 15 points, Moundou-Missi 12 and Chambers 11 for the Crimson, who shot 54.8 percent (23 of 42) and have won four of their past five games.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – UMBC sophomore Krystal Mlemchukwu (Baltimore, Md./Western Tech) notched 13 kills and senior Emily Witsaman (Medina, Ohio/Medina) sent down 12 winners, but it was not quite enough as American outlasted the UMBC volleyball teams in five sets (23-25, 25-17, 25-14, 19-25, 15-7), Wednesday night at Bender Arena.
Freshman libero Casey Griffith (King of Prussia, Pa./Upper Merion) once again led the UMBC (9-6) back line, picking up 18 digs in the losing effort. Senior Ali Goc (Oshawa, Ontario/R.S. McLaughlin) was also in double figures for digs with 12, while setter Mallory McIntyre (Winnipeg, Manitoba/St. Mary's Academy) recorded a double-double with 41 assists and ten digs.
Allison Cappellino led all hitters with 18 hitters while Kristyna Lindovska (17), Juliana Crum (10), and Kelly McCaddin (10) also registered double-digit kills for American (14-1). Crum also scooped up 15 digs for a double-double while Monika Smidova sent out 55 assists and picked up 12 digs.
The Eagles outhit the Retrievers .262-.158 and recorded more digs (67-62) and blocks (12.0-9.0), but UMBC would not go away, pushing the match to the brink.
The visitors jumped out to an early lead behind Goc's serving, staking to a 7-1 advantage following a kill by Witsaman. UMBC kept American at bay for a time and led 16-8 after another Witsaman kill, but the hosts slowly chipped away and knotted the opening frame at 23-23 on a Retriever attack error. UMBC shower resolve, though, and went up 24-23 on a Mlemchukwu kill and took the set on an Eagle attack error.
The second set featured back-and-forth runs, and after going down by three, 11-8, UMBC pulled within one on a kill by junior Hannah Schmidt (Catonsville, Md./Mount de Sales) and an American attack miscue. The Retrievers could not quite pull all the way back, however, and a late 7-2 Eagle run all but put the set away and the hosts went on to level the match with a 25-17 set win.
America carried the momentum into the third frame, claiming a 10-5 lead on a block by Smidova and Bree Scarbrough. The Retrievers responded with back-to-back points, but could never muster a rally and fell 25-14 in the third set.
UMBC did not fold though, and steadily built a lead in the fourth set. After American tied the set at 9-9, UMBC went on a 10-3 run capped by one of four service aces from McIntyre. The Retrievers then held the Eagles at bay and forced a decisive fifth set on a kill by sophomore Sherelle Walker (New Freedom, Pa./Susquehannock).
In the final frame, the teams traded points and were tied at 5-5 before AU claimed five consecutive points for a 10-5 advantage. UMBC cut back with two points in a row, but the Eagles closed the match with another 5-0 run.
UMBC now returns home to open up America East play by hosting Stony Brook on Friday, September 27 at the RAC Arena. The conference matchup between the Retrievers and Seawolves is scheduled for a 7:00 p.m. start.
- American now leads the all-time series, 25-11, and has won nine straight meetings.
- The last five-set contest between the Retrievers and Eagles came back on Sept. 23, 1997 with American winning, 3-2.
- Goc tallied eight kills, snapping her run of three-straight matches with double digit kills.
- Griffith has picked up 13 or more digs in each of UMBC's last five contests.
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Why don't popular programs like Photoshop or World of Warcraft support Linux?
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US: Toxins Threaten to Uproot Entire Town
The quiet village of Tallevast in Florida's Manatee County traces its roots back to the 1890s, when a community of shacks was built there for African-American labourers who worked tapping sap from the local pine forests to make turpentine and grew sugarcane, celery and strawberries in the fields.
Today, Tallevast is home to about 250 people, many of them descendants of the former slaves who founded the town. But those families now face a bitter choice.
For 25 years, from 1961 to 1996, the American Beryllium Company ran a plant in Tallevast that made parts for nuclear reactors and weapons. Because beryllium has a low density and is stronger than steel, the metallic chemical compound is often used by aerospace industry companies. With the end of the Cold War, the need to produce such materials subsided and the plant was closed in 1996.
Unbeknownst to residents, an underground leak had released beryllium into water wells in the village. And when the defence company Lockheed Martin Corp. bought the plant and discovered the problem in 2000, it failed to inform the people of Tallevast for another three years.
Residents cite anecdotal information on cancer, miscarriages, nose bleeds and other health conditions, but no one has yet carried out a scientific survey to document the illnesses. The Environmental Protection Agency says that beryllium is a probable human carcinogen.
According to members of a local group called Family Oriented Community United Strong, or FOCUS, Tallevast is a prime example of environmental racism, or the deliberate targeting of low-income and minority communities for hazardous waste.
"Now there's an underground plume of toxins that is under all of Tallevast and about 200 acres," said Laura Ward, president of FOCUS.
Tallevast's representative in the Florida State Legislature, Bill Galvano, thinks the whole town should be moved to a new site. Last week, Galvano sent Lockheed a proposal suggesting that the company pay for most of the relocation costs, to a new site selected by Tallevast residents. In exchange, Galvano is asking the town's residents to drop their lawsuit against Lockheed filed in 2005, claiming charges of property damage and mental anguish.
"There's a willingess to help (from the state government) but once everybody gets lawyers, that slows things up," Galvano told IPS.
"Everybody takes sides; I know how it works since I'm a lawyer myself. I'm not saying that the residents don't have a right to bring a lawsuit since they believe they were put in harm's way. That's their right and that's why we have a court system. I'm just saying that I truly believe that if everybody got together and talked about it, we could resolve this," he said.
FOCUS members, however, are still furious and demanding action.
"There should have been an environmental evaluation done (before the plant opened in 1961). They (Lockheed) assumed that we wouldn't make a fuss because we're in a poor black community. They were wrong," Wanda Washington, vice president of FOCUS, told IPS.
"We're happy with his (Galvano's) attempts to come to the table. We have made a couple of trips to Tallahassee (the state's capital, to speak with legislators) and I haven't heard anything back from the governor. It's hard to get our information out of the county. The local and state governments are trying to downplay it," Ward added.
This past summer, a state agency reported that people who had drunk water from Tallevast's contaminated wells have an elevated risk of developing kidney cancer, leukemia, liver cancer or lymphoma. The contaminated wells have been capped and many of the villagers now use municipal water.
Under state law, Lockheed Martin, as the current owner of the plant, must deal with the beryllium pollution under the direct supervision of the state of Florida. The company has offered its own 10-million-dollar Remedial Action Plan, but a full-scale clean-up is not expected to begin for at least another 10 months.
"We've implemented a house-selling programme (for Tallevast residents), where they can get fair market value for their houses, in case some people decide to leave the area. We don't administer this, it's done by an independent party," Gail Rymer, director of environmental communications at Lockheed, told IPS.
"The key point is the community is safe and they're not being exposed to any contaminants and they will continue to be safe, once the groundwater cleansing system we're working on is finished. They're on a public water system, so they're in no danger," Rymer asserted.
Ward and Washington disagree. "We're still at a point where Lockheed is still doing evaluations to effectively clean the community. We don't want to be exposed to the contamination...What happens if there's still contamination in the water (after the remediation)?" asked Ward.
"Our property values are down. We have some new residents in the community who have bought homes that are on properties with the capped wells and were never told about it. It (the clean-up of the toxins in the water) will never be done in my lifetime or my children's lifetime or maybe even my grandchildren's lifetimes. We definitely think that this is a case of environmental racism," said Washington.
Similar problems have been documented nationwide. In March, Dr. Robert D. Bullard, director of the Environmental Justice Resource Centre at Clark Atlanta University, and colleagues published "Toxic Wastes and Race at Twenty: 1987-2007," which followed up on a landmark investigative report issued in 1987 by the UCC Justice and Witness Ministries.
The 2007 report found that of the more than 9 million people estimated to live within 1.8 miles of the nation's 413 commercial waste facilities, more than 5.1 million are people of colour.
Other research has confirmed similar disparities. A 2000 study by the Dallas Morning News and the University of Texas-Dallas found that almost half of the nearly 2 million federally-subsidised apartments for low-income people were within about a mile of factories releasing toxic emissions.
A 2001 report by the Latino Policy Forum determined that 68 percent of African Americans live within 30 miles of coal-fired power plants, compared to 56 percent of whites. And a 2005 Associated Press investigation found that blacks are 79 percent more likely than whites to live in areas most at health risk from industrial air pollution.
Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency awarded 1 million dollars in small grants to improve the environment in low-income communities, an EPA spokesperson told IPS. Twenty community-based organisations are receiving 50,000-dollar grants each for projects aimed at addressing such environmental and public health issues as exposure to toxins, farm workers pesticide protection, indoor air quality, drinking water contamination, and pollution from shipping ports.
However, the agency's overall record is spotty on environmental justice issues. According to an audit last year by the EPA's internal watchdog, 60 percent of programme and regional office directors were not conducting environmental justice reviews of their policies and activities.
"We haven't heard anything from anybody there in the agency (since that September 2006 report)," said Luke Cole, director of the Centre for Race, Poverty, and the Environment, in San Francisco, California.
"My sense is that everybody there and also in the entire [George W.] Bush administration is just hunkering down and waiting until Mr. Bush's term ends so that they can pass off all of their environmental-related problems along to the next president, whoever he or she may be. So it's status quo until a new president is elected next year," he told IPS.
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Servings: 8
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1/4 teaspoon kosher salt, more to taste
1 clove garlic, chopped
1 cup mayonnaise
1/2 cup sour cream
1/4 to 1/2 cup milk or buttermilk, depending on how thick you want the dressing
1/4 cup chopped flat-leaf parsley, more to taste
1 tablespoon chopped fresh chives, more to taste
2 tablespoons chopped fresh dill, more to taste
1/2 teaspoon distilled white vinegar, more to taste
1/2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce, more to taste
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper, more to taste
1/4 teaspoon paprika, more to taste
1/2 teaspoon pepper, more to taste
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1. In a large bowl, sprinkle the salt over the garlic. Mash the garlic and salt together with a fork or pestle to form a paste. The finer the better, as the garlic is very strong in the finished dressing.
2. Whisk in the mayonnaise, sour cream, milk, parsley, chives, dill, vinegar, Worcestershire sauce, cayenne pepper, paprika, pepper and hot sauce if using. Taste and adjust the seasonings and flavorings as desired. Make the ranch dressing all yours -- add in more of what you like. This makes about 2 cups dressing.
3. Chill the dressing for at least 2 hours before serving. Thin with milk if desired.
4. Wash and dry the lettuce and cut into wedges. Arrange the wedges on a platter and drizzle the ranch dressing over the top. Be generous with the dressing since it needs to reach all the lettuce in the wedge. Serve immediately.
Each serving: 248 calories; 2 grams protein; 6 grams carbohydrates; 2 grams fiber; 24 grams fat; 4 grams saturated fat; 24 mg. cholesterol; 224 mg. sodium.


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- "Undeclared active ingredients" in X-Rock for Men "pose a threat," the company says
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- The product is billed as an "organic" supplement with "no chemicals or steroids"
The makers of an over-the-counter male sexual supplement are recalling the product after government tests showed some unlisted ingredients "pose a threat to consumers," the company says.
Tests conducted by the Food and Drug Administration found that the supplement X-Rock contained sildenafil -- an approved drug to treat erectile dysfunction -- and related substance, hydroxythiohomosildenafil, the product's manufacturer said in a statement annoucing the voluntary recall. The announcement from the product's manufacturer, X-Rock Industries, was posted on the FDA's website.
"These undeclared active ingredients pose a threat to consumers because sildenafil and hydroxythiohomosildenafil may interact with nitrates found in some prescription drugs (such as nitroglycerin) and lower blood pressure to dangerous levels," X-Rock Industries said.
Erectile dysfunction is more common in men with diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and heart disease, who are generally more likely to take nitrates, the statement noted. But the company "has not received any reports of adverse events related to this recall," it said.
The voluntary recall "is being conducted with the knowledge of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration," X-Rock said.
The product's website, XRockme.com, describes the U.S.-manufactured supplement as "totally organic." It contains "many potent, proprietary natural ingredients -- absolutely no chemicals or steroids," the website states.
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Partisan antagonism rules the capital, drowning out most attempts at constructive compromise. But on at least one issue, reasonable lawmakers from both parties strongly agree: reforming the criminal justice system to reduce the prison population and enable former inmates to become more productive members of society.
This growing consensus is both surprising and heartening, especially at a time when Congress can�t seem to agree on anything else. Listen, for example, to Sen. Rand Paul, a libertarian Republican from Kentucky, and Sen. Cory Booker, a Democrat from New Jersey, who have co-sponsored legislation that would seal the records of juvenile offenders and give nonviolent adults a chance to expunge their criminal past.
�I think it�s an issue that we both believe strongly in,� Paul told Judy Woodruff on PBS. �People can�t get a job because they have to check off a box saying they�re a felon. There are 5 million people who have lost the right to vote ... I want people to get back to work. I want them to get back to voting.�
�There is a large recognition ... that we have a criminal justice system that has gone awry, costing taxpayers too much money,� added Booker. �We�re finding common ground and having the common sense to say, you know what, if we both agree on something, let�s see if we can advance the ball by joining with our colleagues.�
They�re both right. The criminal justice system costs too much and accomplishes too little. Mandatory sentences for even minor drug offenses are the primary culprit; America now has 5 percent of the world�s people but a quarter of its prisoners. About 219,000 inmates are in federal custody, and each one costs taxpayers $30,000 a year. The Bureau of Prisons is nearly 40 percent over capacity.
But the most serious indictment is this: The criminal justice system simply doesn�t work. Instead of making us safer, it has the opposite effect.
�A vicious cycle of poverty, criminality and incarceration traps too many Americans and weakens too many communities,� Attorney General Eric Holder said last year. �Many aspects of our criminal justice system may actually exacerbate these problems rather than alleviate them.�
The American public clearly understands that and �appears ready for a truce in the long-running war on drugs,� according to a recent survey by the Pew Research Center. By an overwhelming margin, 67 percent to 26 percent, Americans favor treating drug users instead of prosecuting them.
Peacemakers in the drug wars are working on four different fronts, and the first is the states, which, driven by crushing budget constraints, are far ahead of Washington. Kentucky, to take one example, �has reserved prison beds for only the most serious criminals, focusing resources instead on community supervision and other alternatives� to incarceration, reports the Washington Post. The goal: Reduce the state�s prison population by 3,000 over 10 years and save $400 million.
As a group of conservative leaders said in a letter to Congress recently: �States are getting smart on crime while the federal prison system is missing the mark.�
The second front is executive action, and Holder has directed the 94 U.S. attorneys under his command to seek �the most severe penalties� for only �serious, high-level or violent drug traffickers,� says the Post. One tactic: Write criminal complaints in such a way that they don�t automatically trigger mandatory sentences.
The attorney general is also urging the Department of Education to revise �zero tolerance� discipline policies that can backfire because they�re too rigid. �A minor school disciplinary offense should put a student in the principal�s office and not a police precinct,� says Holder.
The third front in de-escalating the drug war is a federal advisory panel called the United States Sentencing Commission. Last month, the panel voted unanimously to adopt new guidelines for judges that could reduce sentences for 46,000 current inmates by as much as 25 months. The changes would go into effect if Congress doesn�t block them by Nov. 1, an unlikely development.
The final front is Congress. New laws, like the one proposed by Paul and Booker, are still needed. Another important proposal, called the Smarter Sentencing Act, would slash mandatory sentences and give judges greater discretion to exercise leniency in some cases. It passed the Senate Judiciary Committee earlier this year on a decisive bipartisan vote of 13 to 5, but has languished since then.
There is no one answer here. Progress comes in small pieces and different places. But the consensus is clear. The current criminal system, however well-intentioned, doesn�t work and should be changed.
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Reading, Viewing, and Listening in 2012
by Lesley A. Hall
This was a year when various external pressures of workplace upheavals, academic and academic-relating commitments piling up in unwonted fashion, and health issues including substantial amounts of dental work, meant that I spent quite a lot of time metaphorically huddling in a corner sucking my thumb and hugging my teddybear, and doing quantities of comfort re-reading.
Even so, there were new and exciting discoveries. I encountered perhaps an unusual number of recent books that rang my particular bells. One I can't say much about, since it was the manuscript kindly made available to me by a well-known author which is, nonetheless, having publishing difficulties (and while I did absolutely love it, I think I can see why, because it doesn't really fit into the kinds of neat categories and predefined niches that the industry likes).
Another one was self-published - Ankaret Wells, The Firebrand, which is a wonderful steampunky mashup inspired by Bronte juvenilia and rang an absolute carillon of bells for me between the style, the narrative voice, the characters, the worldbuilding. I already (I hope) led some readers to her when I included The Books of Requite in my 2010 round-up.
Roz Kaveney's Rituals: Rhapsody of Blood, Volume I, also chimed mightily, and I think for similar reasons. A great distinctive narrative voice is possibly my personal bullet-proof kink. Add to this great and complex women central characters, an appreciation that women can be effective agents without having to be leatherclad ass-kicking assassins or macha swordswomen, and can deal with problems by deploying intelligence, negotiating skills and a whole range of options that don't require violence, more than one woman in the frame, an intriguing cosmology... my only complaint with this book was perhaps that it has the dread 'Volume I' in the title: I am now jonesing for the next installments.
Joolz Denby's novels, which straddle a dark boundary of thriller/horror/noir/gothic/gritty (the horrors are not supernatural, which makes them the more horrific), set in brilliantly realised contemporary settings. Wild Thing, which appeared earlier this year from the small press Ignite Books, was very much in this territory, so I practically experienced whiplash when I read the charming The Curious Mystery Of Miss Lydia Larkin & The Widow Marvell, a very different, though equally excellent and compelling novella.
Like everybody else I know, I was blown away by Elizabeth Wein's Code Name Verity about women as undercover agents and aviators in World War II and friendship and... immensely complex narrative that makes it one of the few books where there genuinely is a need to observe the requirement not to bruit about spoilers for those who haven't yet read it.
Via the good offices of Project Gutenberg, on which be peace, I was able to read Dorothy Canfield Fisher's The Bent Twig (1915) and Kathleen Norris's Saturday's Child (1914), two novels which had interesting similarities as bildungsromans centring on young women from relatively humble and unprivileged backgrounds, and incorporating strong anti-plutocratic notes in the development of plot and character. Both are novelists I must read more of.
I didn't watch the televisation of Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End tetralogy (I suppose there are actors even less like Christopher Tietjens as described in the text than Benedict Cumberbatch... but this casting news rather put me off) but I was moved by the general buzz to re-read Parade's End, and was yet again stunned by the extraordinary narrative technique (even if I sometimes wanted to summon up the shade of Ford to smack it with a haddock for all those terrible social preconceptions over a range of axes).
I also, for a seminar paper I'd been invited to give, re-read (I can't count which times these would have been!) Naomi Mitchison's Memoirs of a Spacewoman and Solution Three. Yet again I was struck at how complex and rich Mitchison's work is, what dense layers there are within it, something that her extreme readibility and narrative drive seem to have effectively concealed.
As far as non-fiction reading went, I was thrilled by the appearance of Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader. This is a wonderful gathering together of Rubin's important contributions to thinking about and historicising sexuality, providing an overview of her work over the course of her career. I was particularly taken by her magnificent defence of empiricism versus theoretical work, and the very necessary reminder that empiricism may actually be engaging with theory but not in a flashy or currently-fashionable way, while theorists may be basing their theorising on unsteady foundations of unexamined assumptions or outdated work.
Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980 (2012) was surprisingly compelling reading, given that it consists of often laconic and occasionally downright cryptic journal entries.
Other cultural activities.
Hepworth Sculpture Garden in St Ives, Cornwall. This was something I have long wanted to do, but it's a lengthy journey, at least by UK standards, from London to near Lands' End. But anyway, I had a short but lovely weekend break in St Ives, which is delightful in itself if unsurprisingly very full of visitors. I did not manage to visit
Virginia Woolf's
lighthouse, but at least I saw it out in the bay.
While in Cardiff for a conference I was able to make a flying visit to the National Art Museum, in particular to gaze on its Monets, part of a major art collection built up by two remarkable Welsh sisters, Gwendolen
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Am I the only one who heard Dr. Oz say that people using alternative therapies "benefits me." ? (http://www.doctoroz.com/videos/alternative-medicine-controversy-pt-1, at about 4:22). Freudian slip? Or just being up front with the viewers about the value of his endorsements?
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Electronic Arts strategy game studio Phenomic today announced that its fantasy strategy / virtual trading card game BattleForge will ship March 24 in North America and Europe.
In BattleForge, trading cards are used for spells, buildings and units, allowing players to customize armies and combine factions. Due to the card play nature, the game has no base building or production queues.In addition to a singleplayer campaign that can be played in co-op mode, the game also features ranked player vs player battles, guild support, an auction hall, as well as a marketplace to trade cards.
Phenomic is still accepting beta signups at BattleForgeCardHunt.com.
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Sandy: 5 political questions
The presidential campaigns are publicly hitting pause on East Coast electioneering as Hurricane Sandy spirals toward Atlantic beaches, but privately political professionals are starting to assess important questions about how it might affect next week's elections up and down the ballot.
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"Governor Romney's concern is the safety and well-being of those in the path of this storm, not political considerations," said Andrea Saul. Obama's team wouldn't talk about the ramifications on Sunday night.
But that doesn't mean campaigns aren't worried. Come hell or high water — and likely both — the nation will choose a president next Tuesday, and Sandy could wreak havoc on the election.
Here are the answers to five questions about Sandy's impact on the election:
1) Will Mitt Romney's momentum be stopped?
It's hard to see how the storm helps. The Republican nominee has more than closed the gap with the incumbent over the final weeks of the campaign, taking a slim lead in most national polls. But his national boost hasn't been mirrored in two pivotal states: Ohio and Virginia. Already Romney had to scrap a full day's worth of events in Virginia Sunday.
Obama has had to change his schedule, too, but he's not the one trying to make up ground.
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And even though there are multiple schools of thought on how Sandy could affect voters' feelings about the candidates or the nuts and bolts of getting folks to turn out, it's still hard to see how the storm could help Romney. That is, unless the government botches the response and voters blame Obama.
There's one practical problem: travel. The storm will make it difficult for Romney to make the final push in states affected by the storm including Virginia, Florida and New Hampshire. He does plan to visit Wisconsin, Iowa and Ohio Monday — also critical states. "Romney still has ground to make up in several swing states where the race has not budged," one Democrat told POLITICO. "So to the degree it impacts travel — canceling trips to places like New Hampshire — makes it hard to make up the gap."
2) Does Obama have a natural advantage because he's president?
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists said their data on air quality measurements taken in June in the vicinity of the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill area are consistent with those of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Occupational Safety & Healthy Administration.
The NOAA report summarizes the levels of nearly 100 air pollutants measured with sophisticated air sampling instruments onboard a WP-3D research aircraft.
Scientists found common air pollutants, such as ozone, nitrogen oxides and carbon monoxide, in amounts typical of urban areas in U.S. cities. However, 15 to 70 kilometers downwind from the oil spill, concentrations of certain hydrocarbons were much higher than found in typical polluted air. Particulate matter downwind of the oil slick was comparable to concentrations in moderately polluted urban air, but the particles were almost entirely organic material, as opposed to those typically found in urban particulate matter. Scientists also measured large amounts of black carbon in smoke from a controlled burn of crude oil on the water.
"Data from the NOAA flights are providing an important detailed and independent set of air quality data to assess air quality risks of workers at sea and the public ashore," said A. R. Ravishankara, director of the Chemical Sciences Division of NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory, who led the science team.
NOAA scientists measured the air pollutants in four areas, including in the immediate vicinity of the spill, downwind from the spill, and along the Mississippi, Alabama and Florida coastlines. They also measured "background" air in an area far from the spill to serve as a control sample. In analyzing the levels of the pollutants, scientists compared them to typical concentrations of a polluted U.S. urban area.
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Concordia Roars Back to Win Second Title
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - (Box score;video) Oklahoma Baptist appeared well on its way to winning its third national title in school history, racing out to a 16-1 lead on Tuesday. Concordia (Calif.) responded with a massive run of its own, and the Eagles celebrated their first national championship since 2003 and second overall with a 72-69 win at the 75th Anniversary Buffalo Funds-NAIA Division I Men's Basketball National Championship in Kansas City, Mo.
"They were a great team, and they showed how good they were jumping out on us early," Concordia head coach and Rawlings-NAIA Division I Men's Basketball Coach of the Year Ken Ammann said. "We showed how much heart we have by coming back. I am so proud of our guys. What a great group of guys to be around, and it was so much fun all year."
The Municipal Auditorium crowd held its collective breath as Oklahoma Baptist got three cracks at a potential game-tying 3-pointer in the final seconds. Emmanuel Wilson of the Bison misfired on a three in the corner with 16 seconds left, but David Johnson tracked down the offensive rebound and Oklahoma Baptist called timeout with nine seconds left. Wilson got another chance with three seconds to go, but his attempt from several feet beyond the arc was blocked by Tommy Stangl, kicking the ball over to Heath McKay, whose rushed 3-pointer rimmed out as the buzzer sounded.
"We got a lead and then started turning the ball over and didn't even make them work," Oklahoma Baptist head coach Doug Tolin said. "We got a good look and a good shot at the end. I think our kids have set the bar high for OBU basketball as far as character and heart."
The heart-wrenching final seconds were set up by a furious rally in the last 3:30 for the Bison, who trailed 67-57 after a Tommy Granado bucket at the 3:28 mark. Wilson sparked a 12-3 run for Oklahoma Baptist by draining a 3-pointer at the top of the key. The Bison trimmed the deficit all the way down to one after Wilson knocked in another three off a loose ball and Jacobi Isham went for a basket with :36 remaining.
Oklahoma Baptist was forced to foul Austin Simon on the ensuing Concordia possession. Simon, who poured in 10 of his 13 points in the second half, drilled both free throws to set the stage for the frantic closing 25 seconds. The entire Eagle bench swarmed the court as McKay's attempt bounded long.
Tournament MVP Cameron Gliddon was held to 11 points, and he fouled out with 4:17 left in the game with the Eagles holding a 10-point advantage. The 6-foot-5 senior guard did not score his first point until sinking a pair of free throws at the 5:31 mark of the first half. He then nailed a long 3-pointer that edged Concordia in front, 33-31, at the half. Gliddon later found a rhythm midway through the second half, finding the bottom of the net on 3-pointers on back-to-back possessions. The second trey tied former Eagle Jeremy Groth's tournament record for 3-pointers in a single event with 21 and gave Concordia a 57-48 lead with 9:32 left.
Gliddon would not get another attempt from the field as he finished the 2012 tournament with 92 points (18.4 average) as he connected on 21-of-39 3-point tries in five games.
The Eagles appeared as though they may be doomed after trailing by 15 points less than four minutes into the game. Oklahoma Baptist's Desmond Griffin went for two in the paint to push the lead to 18-3 with 14:51 left in the first half, but the Bison would fail to notch another field goal until the 6:56 mark when David Johnson's bucket allowed them to regain the lead at 22-21. The extended drought saw Oklahoma Baptist turn it over seven times as Concordia put together a 19-3 run that put the Eagles in front.
Concordia then took control out of the gate in the second half, featuring back-to-back 3-pointers by Simon, who scored the Eagles' first eight points of the half. The Simon spurt gave Concordia a 41-35 advantage with 17:24 to go.
The Eagles, who shot just 37.5 percent from the field in the first half, heated up in the second half to finish at 45.0 percent (27-for-60) for the game. Concordia's Tommy Granado paced the team with 16 points, 14 of which came in a huge first half.
Wilson, the NAIA Division I Men's Basketball Player of the Year, led the Bison with 16 points on 5-for-14 shooting. Marques Anderson posted 15 points and 10 rebounds for Oklahoma Baptist, which played without the services of DeAngelo McIntosh, who suffered an injury in the semifinal victory.
Concordia closes its season at 31-7 and improved to 24-8 all-time in 10 national tournament appearances. Oklahoma Baptist ends its season at 32-5 overall and fell to 58-22 in 25 appearances at the National Championship.
Game notes:
Concordia - Concordia wins its second national championship, last winning the crown in 2003 ... The Eagles also finished second in both 2004 and 2007 ... Concordia is one of only three programs from the Golden State Athletic Conference (Azusa Pacific, Biola) to advance to the championship game ... The Eagles finished the season 26-1 when leading at halftime ... Concordia is now 24-8 (.750) all-time at the national tournament, the highest winning percentage among the teams in this year's field.
Oklahoma Baptist - Oklahoma Baptist has finished as national tournament runner-up six times (1965, 1967, 1993, 1997, 2002, 2012) ... Oklahoma Baptist has now played in eight championship games, the most of any team in tournament history ... The Bison were 3-4 when trailing at the half this season ... Senior guard Emmanuel Wilson finished his four-year career at Oklahoma Baptist with 1,399 points.
All-Tournament Team
Davey Hopkins, Biola (Calif.)
Cameron Gliddon, Concordia (Calif.)
Tommy Granado, Concordia (Calif.)
Austin Simon, Concordia (Calif.)
Derrick Parker, LSU Shreveport (La.)
Brandon Brown, Montana Western
Cam Miller, Mountain State (W.Va.)
Emmanuel Wilson, Oklahoma Baptist
Heath McKay, Oklahoma Baptist
Donald Williams, Rogers State (Okla.)
Chuck Taylor Most Valuable Player Award: Cameron Gliddon, Concordia (Calif.)
Charles Stevenson Hustle Award: Dakota Downs, Concordia (Calif.)
Dr. James Naismith-Emil S. Liston Sportsmanship Award: Belhaven (Miss.)
Charles A. Krigel Award*: Tom Kelsey, Belhaven (Miss.)
Chuck Walden Memorial Trophy (given to Honorary Coaches of championship team): Dr. Phil and Mary Pattison
Frank Cramer Award^: Ron Cooper, Olathe Medical Center
2011 - 12 NAIA Division I Men's Basketball Player of the Year: Emmanuel Wilson, Oklahoma Baptist
2011 - 12 Rawlings-NAIA Division I Men's Basketball Coach of the Year: Ken Ammann, Concordia (Calif.)
* given to coach of the team that best exhibits respect, civility, integrity and fair play, the qualities that define sportsmanship
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An analytics checklist for customer intelligence
Seven must-do's to improve your marketing efforts
By Jeff Alford, SAS Insights editor
If you haven't read the bestselling book, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, author and surgeon Atul Gawande borrowed from the US Air Force the idea that checklists can save lives. Whether it's fighter pilots or surgical patients, having a simple but powerful list of actions can reduce deaths, often by significant percentages.
Can you apply the same principle to marketing? Of course you can. In fact, David Stodder has just written a TDWI report: Best Practices for Delivering Actionable Customer Intelligence.
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Data management: Improvements equal strategic advantages
Collecting data from every source you can imagine is a worthwhile endeavor, but unless you have a way to integrate, cleanse and store the data (or for handling raw data for event stream processing) it lacks real purpose.
While there is no one way to approach data management, there are some guiding principles. The best tactic is to first determine the approaches that best align with your business objective. Then map your course based on integrating those approaches.
And, it's never a task you can permanently check off your list because changing business realities and technology advancements will mean you periodically revisit your decisions and make additional improvements.
Data governance: Protect their privacy
Your customer's data is the responsibility of your entire organization, not just your IT department. In fact, data governance is more effective when everyone is involved in setting governance policies. Once the policies are in place, solutions such as customer master data management can help streamline data integration so that every department is using the data in a protected, but expansive, way.
Visual analytics: Put your data in action
The ability to explore your data is something nearly everyone in your marketing organization should be able to do without having to be a data scientist. A new generation of data visualization tools are available to offer self-service data investigation. With visual analytics, you can display the data in contexts and formats that are most meaningful for you or your intended audience. For example, you might overlay customer purchasing behaviors on a country map to help identify regional buying trends.
And to add to the good-news message, new and innovative ways of visualizing data are being introduced every day.
Analytics: Being predictive to make you more proactive
Predictive marketing means you can reach your customers when they're the most receptive to your pitches. Predictive analytics is the wizardry that happens behind the curtain to make predictive marketing possible.
Expanding the scope of a sales opportunities with the right cross-sell or upsell offers can be a big boost to revenue growth. Better still, much of these activities can be automated. Data sources for this effort can be from several sources such as unstructured text from social media, call center transcripts and web chats.
Personalization: Complexity increases as your company grows
As you (hopefully) acquire more customers, your data also grows and added complexities emerge. But if you have been diligent with the first four items of the checklist, then this next checklist item, cluing in to your customers' preferences, should be easier. That's because everything you've accomplished so far leads you to a more complete view of the customer.
Customer-facing operations: Become more agile
When companies want to improve the performance of their customer-facing assets, they turn to analytics. Think of analytics as the thing that enables you to find the reasons behind the results. Once you know why events occur based on your operational data, your ability to predict how your business moves forward improves.
You can create dashboards to monitor progress toward performance goals internal and external. Also if you've centralized your data to eliminate silos, the number of dashboards needed to monitor your entire business is reduced.
Improved customer experiences: Where rubber and road meet
The payoff for getting your business processes aligned via data and analytics is better experiences for your customers. Improved loyalty and increased sales are natural byproducts. For industries where customer churn is a huge challenge, analytics can be used to identify customer satisfaction downturns more quickly so that you can respond appropriately.
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PEORIA, Ill. — Using plastic fibers and human cells, doctors have built and implanted a windpipe in a 2 ½-year-old girl — the youngest person ever to receive a bioengineered organ.
The surgery, which took place on April 9 here at Children's Hospital of Illinois and will be formally announced Tuesday, is only the sixth of its kind and the first to be performed in the United States. It was approved by the Food and Drug Administration under rules that allow experimental procedures when otherwise the patient has little hope of survival.
Dr. Paolo Macchiarini, a specialist in the field of regenerative medicine who developed the windpipe and led the complex nine-hour operation, said the treatment of the Korean-Canadian toddler, Hannah Warren, made him realize that this approach to building organs may work best with children, by harnessing their natural ability to grow and heal.
"Hannah's transplant has completely changed my thinking about regenerative medicine," said Dr. Macchiarini, a surgeon at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. He said he would like to proceed with a clinical trial in the United States, something that critics of his approach have called for.
Hannah was born without a windpipe, or trachea — an extremely rare condition that is eventually fatal in 99 percent of cases — and had lived since birth in a newborn intensive care unit in a Korean hospital, breathing through a tube inserted in her mouth. Because of other developmental problems, she cannot eat normally and cannot speak.
Nearly three weeks after the surgery, the girl is acting playfully with her doctors and nurses, at one point smiling and waving goodbye to a group of visitors. Dr. Mark Holterman, a pediatric surgeon at the hospital, said that Hannah was breathing largely on her own, although through a hole in her neck, not through her mouth yet. "She's doing well," he said. "She had some complications from the surgery, but the trachea itself is doing great."
Dr. Macchiarini described a look of befuddlement on the child's face when she realized that the mouth tube was gone and she could put her lips together for the first time. "It was beautiful," he said.
The goal of regenerative medicine, or tissue engineering, is to create or regrow tissues and organs to ease transplant shortages or treat conditions that do not have an effective cure. After years of scant progress, tissue engineers have begun to make advances as they have gained a better understanding of the role that stem cells — basic cells that can become tissue-specific ones — play in signaling the body to grow and repair itself.
Still, only a few relatively simple organs have been made and implanted, and the science-fiction-inspired goal of ready-made hearts or other complex organs remains far off. Until now, the youngest recipient of a tissue-engineered organ was a 4-year-old spina bifida patient who received a bladder.
Dr. Macchiarini has performed the five other windpipe implants similar to Hannah's. One patient, an American man who was operated on in Stockholm, has died. An Eritrean man has lived the longest so far, surviving for about 2 ½ years since the surgery.
To make Hannah's windpipe, Dr. Macchiarini's team made a half-inch diameter tube out of plastic fibers, bathed it in a solution containing stem cells taken from the child's bone marrow and incubated it in a shoebox-size device called a bioreactor.
Doctors are not sure exactly what happens after implantation, but think that the stem cells signal the body to send other cells to the windpipe, which then sort out so the appropriate tissues grow on the inside and outside of the tube. Because the windpipe uses only the child's own cells, there is no need for drugs to suppress the patient's immune system to avoid rejection of the implant.
Dr. David Warburton, director of the regenerative medicine program at the Saban Research Institute in Los Angeles, who was not involved in the windpipe work, said that "guarded optimism with a major dash of skepticism is the watchword" for such experimental approaches. "The challenges will be making a wind pipe that functions better than a temporary fix," he said.
While one-of-a-kind operations like this are ethically justified given the desire to save the life of the patient, some experts say that regenerative medicine would be better served by clinical trials that could, through analysis of more data, provide a better understanding of how effective these kinds of implants are and how they function.
"No doubt large trials are critical," said Martin Birchall, a professor at University College London who used to work with Dr. Macchiarini but has switched to using donor tracheas from cadavers, which he strips of their original cells.
Dr. Macchiarini said he was now ready to go ahead with a clinical trial in the United States, and the Peoria hospital said it would like to arrange one if it could gain F.D.A. approval.
The toddler faces a long rehabilitation process as she breathes normally for the first time. Doctors hope that with additional operations she will be able to eat through her mouth and speak.
As the girl grows, she will also need a bigger windpipe. Dr. Macchiarini estimated that she might need a new one in four years, but said his team tried to delay a replacement for as long as possible by oversizing the implant and including some biodegradable plastic, which may allow it to stretch.
The girl's parents, Darryl and Young-Mi Warren, said that shortly after Hannah was born they had been told that there were some treatments for her condition, but that the odds of her living past age 6 were very slim. "We didn't want Hannah for just another couple of years," Mr. Warren said. "We wanted her for the rest of our lives."
Mr. Warren did some Internet research two years ago and discovered Dr. Macchiarini's work. He shared it with Dr. Holterman, who happened to learn about Hannah while on a business trip to South Korea. Dr. Holterman and the hospital's chief surgeon, Dr. Richard H. Pearl, persuaded Dr. Macchiarini to come to Peoria to do the procedure.
Mr. Warren said he was amazed that it all worked out. "It actually is unbelievable," he said. "The fact that they're doing this, at this time, when Hannah needed it the most."


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I have a friend, whose name is Mark Sorrell, who yesterday posted this column. It's probably worth going and reading that first, or none of the rest of this will make sense.
That column triggered a bunch of discussion, part of which was a reddit thread, and part of that thread was this comment from a reader called LadyKeen:
"It shouldn't have to come to this. It isn't about just accepting the fact that you will be harassed, but being a legitimate prescence in the gaming world. Women in the gaming industry aren't just being shat on because they are women. It is because they are used/using themselves as sex symbols or they come out with outrageous claims/ideas about something (ala Hamburger Helper). Successful women in the gaming industry do their job without being a nut about it and therefore do not get the flack."
The whole comment thread is worth reading, partly for Mark's smart answers, and partly for a useful refresher in how myopic and ingrained a lot of the attitudes surrounding this issue are.
Here's what makes me sad.
My position used to be exactly the opinion quoted above. I don't get the flack that a lot of other women-on-the-internet, and especially women-on-the-games-internet get. And that, I used to think, was because I was clever and smart. I didn't cam-whore. I didn't flirt. I didn't do anything to make myself a target. And therefore I was better than the stupid women who courted the hate-mail and the rape threats and the knee-jerk dismissals.
Here are some other things that I included in my 'not making myself a target' strategy:
- not wearing skirts
- not wearing heels
- not coming to the defence of other women on the receiving end of abuse and threats and dismissals
- not, under any circumstances, ever ever ever ever indicating that there might be any sexual activity in my thoughts or my life or my body
- not talking about 'being a woman' or anything dumb and feminist like that
- judging the success of my approach on the number of people who didn't realise from my writing that I was female.
These things pervade everything about how I comport myself online, and indeed in the industry. I posted a picture of my skirt on Twitter the other day, because the pattern reminded me of a Pokemon. I was anxious about posting it, in case it seemed like something that would lay me open to accusations of being a camwhore or an attention-seeking flirt. In the end, I decided I would, but was careful to take a picture where you could only see the pattern, and not—god forbid—some of my leg or something like that. It was a trivial post about a trivial thing, but - thanks to the degree of craziness that pictures of women on the internet can trigger—it felt like treacherous territory.
So when Mark talks about women who self-censor, he is talking about me. It took me a long time to recognise that, because since expressing what I think is such a central element of who I am that facing up to that fact is miserable.
And when LadyKeen makes her point, I sympathise and identify. But I also despair, a bit. Everyone—absolutely everyone—has to decide how to handle themselves online, how to construct themselves professionally. Everyone has to decide where to draw the barriers between their private and public life. We all self-edit, and we all *should* self-edit. It's a pleasure and a responsibility, both, to ensure that we are who we want to be and we have a generally non-shitty impact on the people around us.
But it has taken me a horribly long time to understand what an insidious impact the fear of attracting that degree of negative attention has on the way I present myself. It's taken me a while to recognise that a big part of why I don't post things like this is because I'm *scared*. Actually scared. Actually worried that I'll terminally undermine my credibility. And that's because the degree of abuse you can attract is of a different order from the generality of internet rough-and-tumble [interesting, newly-self-aware side note: I would normally have deleted 'rough-and-tumble' after writing it, because it could just about be interpreted as something titillating. Today, I'm leaving it in there]. General internet rough-and-tumble doesn't phase me. I'm secretly delighted that the 4th Google result for my name is 'Margaret Robertson is full of shit'. It amuses me enough that I've bought www.margaretrobertsonisfullofshit.com, even if I haven't quite figured out what to do with it yet. I think, on the whole, I can make my peace with being called a cunt for what I write, but I find it more daunting to be called a cunt for just having one.
That's a thing I wouldn't have written out-loud before today.
So I'm not saying that a degree of self-editing is bad. And I'm not saying that women (or men) shouldn't be try to be good at their jobs, or act professionally if they want to be treated professionally. I think women being great at what they do is the single best advert for that fact that women are great at what they do.
But in the end, I was right to think I was clever and smart. I have avoided making myself a target of sexist assholes by playing by their rules. I've done a *blinding* job of that so far.
I think I'm going to stop doing that now.
Margaret Robertson is development director at Hide&Seek, who make interesting games for interesting people. These creations include one adorable iPhone game and one unsettling, challenging documentary project.
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Columbus stumbled across it in 1504 but never bothered to come back, and later explorers scorned it as a worthless outcropping of rock and bird dung.
All of a sudden, though, the United States and Haiti are squabbling over the status of Navassa, an uninhabited Caribbean island barely two miles square that both countries claim.
The dispute, which Haiti is threatening to take to international tribunals, arose after an American scientific expedition authorized by the Interior Department spent two weeks on the island this summer. The group returned with tales of finding ''biological riches unimagined,'' which led Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt to warn of his intention to protect the island from interlopers -- perhaps with Coast Guard vessels.
''If you were going to consider a system of protected areas, you'd definitely want to include Navassa in the portfolio,'' said Michael L. Smith, leader of the expedition, which was sponsored by the Center for Marine Conservation, a Washington-based environmental group.
''Navassa has a very special and extremely healthy coral reef,'' he added, ''and it is absolutely remarkable how much animal life we found there, including new species that are endemic to the island.''
The United States has controlled Navassa, just 40 miles off Haiti's southwest peninsula, for more than 140 years. But of the 24 constitutions Haiti has had since gaining independence from France in 1804, all but one of them described La Navase, as the island is called here, as an inalienable part of Haitian territory.
The basis of the American claim is the Guano Islands Act of 1856, which authorized American vessels to establish sovereignty on any abandoned or unclaimed island that had reserves of the rich fertilizer derived from bird droppings. A year later, an American sea captain, Peter Duncan, planted the American flag on Navassa, which was followed by several decades of phosphate mining and construction of a Coast Guard lighthouse that was abandoned only in the 1950's.
Today, Navassa ''is unorganized American territory, meaning that Congress has never set up or passed any statutes prescribing any particular type of administration,'' Mr. Babbitt said in a telephone interview from Washington. ''In the absence of that, the Interior Department is traditionally the place where these matters are dealt with.''
Mr. Babbitt declined to comment on Haiti's claim to the island, referring the matter to the State Department, which has consistently claimed American sovereignty for the island. ''I'm just the head gamekeeper around here,'' he said. ''My job is to administer the place and protect the coral reefs, and that's what we're doing.''
But he did add that he regards Navassa's legal status as no different from that of several remote islands in the Pacific that the United States administers, including Howland and Midway Islands.
But Foreign Minister Fritz Longchamp of Haiti rejects the notion that Navassa is American territory of any sort. He pointed to the 1697 Treaty of Rijswijk, in which Spain gave up sovereignty over Haiti and the adjoining islands to France, and dismissed American possession of the island, and some 4,000 square miles of seabed around it, as irrelevant under international law.
''La Navase is Haitian and a part of Haiti,'' he said in a recent interview here. ''If I own something and I make a decision not to use it, that does not give you the right to come and claim it.''
Complicating the situation even further, William Warren, a California businessman who says he wants to mine Navassa for organic fertilizer, has also made an ownership claim. He has filed suit against Mr. Babbitt and Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, citing a 1905 document in which the State Department said it ''possessed no territorial sovereignty'' over the island.
For weeks now, the Navassa imbroglio has filled news broadcasts and talk shows here. At one point, the American Ambassador, Timothy Carney, even suggested that since Haiti has many internal problems that need attention, the country's energies might be better directed toward resolving those issues, rather than focusing on a tiny island that few Haitians other than fishermen have ever visited.
Since Haiti is the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere and has been without a functioning Government for the more than a year, that observation, indelicate though it may have been, seemed self-evident. Nevertheless, Haitians have taken umbrage at Mr. Carney's remarks and begun to spin extravagant fantasies about his motives in pressing the American claim to the island.
Lafanmi Lavalas, the political party organized by former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, immediately condemned the American position and organized a protest late last month. Haiti is also awash with rumors that the United States covets Navassa because the August expedition discovered gold or uranium there or even, according to one version making the rounds here, a gateway to Atlantis.
Those conjectures are baseless, but ''there is a great dollar dividend if we are talking biotechnology'' derived from some of the spider and insect species unique to the island, said Ernst Wilson, a Haitian oceanographer who has organized La Navase Island Defense Group to assert the Haitian claim.
''La Navase is a perfect laboratory, and biotechnological and pharmaceutical companies are going to want to get into this because there is money there, I know it,'' he said.
Dr. Smith said that in the interests of lowering the political temperature, he would be willing to include Haitian scientists like Dr. Wilson on future visits to the island. His goal, he stressed, is to assure that Navassa remains a pristine refuge for animal and plant species whose existence is endangered elsewhere in the Caribbean.
''Science should be an activity that bridges diplomatic problems between countries,'' he said. ''As an American organization, we are subject to the Supreme Court ruling which says Navassa was properly annexed. But whoever ends up with jurisdiction over the island, we would like to see them manage it well.''