Letter from the editor.Our cover story looks at why much of Africa, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Somini Sengupta, "can be an appalling place to be a child." In her two years as West Africa West Africa A region of western Africa between the Sahara Desert and the Gulf of Guinea. It was largely controlled by colonial powers until the 20th century. West African adj. & n. bureau chief of The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times, Sengupta reports, "Children here reflect their countries ... AIDS has orphaned them, poverty has driven parents to sell them as cheap labor, and warlords Warlords may refer to:
On the home front, we have a story about the Supreme Court, and the discussions among legal scholars about whether life tenure for Justices still makes sense two centuries after the Constitution was written. (It's also the topic of this issue's Debate.) And in Times Past, we revisit the tragedy of Kent State, 35 years after the shooting deaths of four college students on the campus during a protest against the war in Vietnam. |
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