Kuwait University Enforces Gender Segregation Across Campuses
In Kuwait City, lawmakers pushed for full gender segregation at Kuwait University, ending decades of coeducation. Students sign petitions opposing the move as teachers fault rising conservatism, while some view segregation as necessary to protect women’s access to education. Coeducation began in 1966 but now faces a major rollback as male and female facilities and classes increasingly separate.
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Kuwait University
College of Business Administration
Shuwaikh
Kuwait City
Kuwait
Misaed al-Haroun
Massouma al-Mubarak
Hakem al-Mutairi
Dive to recover Monitor turret deep beneath Cape Hatteras
Navy diver Rusty Deen, with three others, labors 200 feet below the water in the USS Monitor wreck site. For five years they salvage the iron gun turret once hailed for revolutionizing naval warfare, living through 12 hour shifts in a decompression chamber while awaiting a final recovery near the graveyard of the Atlantic.
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Hadled
QU Surface Navy
Rusty Deen
Deen
Cape Hatteras
Atlantic
Navy
Hatteras
N.C
William Keeler
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Mariner’s Museum
Newport News
Monitor turret salvage effort shows costly preservation push
The $6.5 million turret recovery costs are funded by the Navy NOAA and the Mariner's Museum as crews preserve the Civil War wreck now a marine sanctuary. Divers work under pressure using eight ton cranes and a spider claw to extract and raise the 35 ton steam engine and cannons while safeguarding artifacts and any remains.
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Navy
NOAA
Museum
Jeff Johnston
Monitor National Marine Sanctuary
John Broadwater
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