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Article: Famous women give voice to slain student's legacy
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 20, 2007
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Michelle Gardner-Quinn wanted to make protecting the environment
her life's work. As a young college student, she traveled to Costa
Rica, Brazil, and South Africa to study nature in its purest forms.
She was an avid supporter of Al Gore and his warnings about global
warming. And last October, as a senior at the University of Vermont,
she wrote a class essay expressing the joys of "digging in the
earth," and her "strong connection to the natural cycles of
creation."
Two days after she submitted her paper, the 21-year-old was
kidnapped, brutally raped, and strangled to death.
But now her words live on, and they come from the mouths of
celebrities, famous political activists, even British ...