Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said there were no significant changes fromlast year. Of students admitted to the Class of2002, 18 percent were Asian Americans, 9.9 percentwere African-Americans. Latino students made up8.5 percent of those admitted...
...then, after decades of the Leakeys' working in isolation and operating on shoestring budgets, that the National Geographic Society agreed to support and promote the "Leakey legacy." Louis was, for Geographic, everything it could have wished for in an African adventurer. He was the self-proclaimed white African...
Richard, meanwhile, continued his rise to prominence. Fossil finds such as the astonishingly complete 1.6 million-year-old skeleton of an African Homo erectus (Homo ergaster to some) and the Black Skull have added immeasurably to our knowledge of human origins. His career benefited from best-selling books, a television series on human evolution and popular lecture tours...
...appointment at Stanford. There he became interested in the origins of human intelligence. Although he had no formal training in genetics or psychology, he began to formulate a theory of what he called dysgenics. Using data from the U.S. Army's crude pre-induction IQ tests, he concluded that African Americans were inherently less intelligent than Caucasians--an analysis that stirred wide controversy among laymen and experts in the field alike...
...South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard performs the first successful human-heart transplant; his patient, Louis Washkansky, survives 18 days...