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The Salton Sea has existed for about 100 years in a closed California desert basin with no natural outlet. And now the Departments of Water Resources and Fish and Game are putting a Draft Environmenta

Barretos film offers yet another retelling of Shakespeares famous tale of star-crossed lovers. Barretos take on the Bards tragedy gives it a comic twist. Instead of feuding families whose hatred leads to violence and death, Barreto serves up two families with opposing soccer team loyalties in soccer-mad Brazil.

The University of Michigan says that complying with a new law banning affirmative action will be complicated — but backers of the law say they will be watching closely to make sure that race and gender are dropped from admissions criteria. The university has dropped legal challenges to the law, which was passed in a referendum in November.

U.S. military forces have long planned the operation under way in Somalia, training Ethiopian troops and gathering intelligence on the ground. They have awaited an opportunity to attack Islamist extremists there.

Some lawmakers on Capitol Hill have raised the possibility of holding up congressional funding for the war in Iraq. But even some Democrats who are opposed to the conflict say it would be impractical to cut off funds.

The University of California San Diego Libraries, the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS), the Center for the Humanities, the Chinese Studies Program, the American Chinese Culture and Education Foundation, and the San Diego Chinese Association present

Remembering the Chinese Cultural Revolution

The new Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi of California discusses the Democrats' agenda in the first 100 hours and beyond; and how Democrats will move forward with their opposition to President Bush's expected plan to raise troop levels in Iraq.

Anti-war activists will find themselves frustrated by President Bush's call for increased U.S. troop levels in Iraq, and by the Democrats' inability to stop the administration from following through.

Steve Inskeep talks to Ken Menkhaus, professor of Political Science at Davidson College in North Carolina. He analyzes the U.S. military strike in Somalia.