Word: africanizing
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...South African Success Story Alex Perry's article refers to Sasol's "dirty little secret", supposedly that Sasol used a process also used by Nazi Germany [Sept. 15]. The founder of Sasol was my brother, the late Etienne Rousseau, a chemical engineer. In 1990 he described to me how he had used a combination of the Fischer-Tropsch and the complementary American Kellogg process, not the German process only. Moreover it is common knowledge that after World War II the U.S. used captured German scientists to work on synthetic fuels. This was a U.S. Bureau of Mining project instigated...
...actually here as a sophomore living in Currier when it all started,” he said, explaining that the tradition began when the late archaeology professor Glynn L. Isaac, an expert in the Paleolithic period, decided in the early 1980s to combine the African tradition of roasting goats with the educational experience of making stone tools...
...kind of a way to have a party,” Lieberman said, explaining that “if you go to an African village and you give them something really nice, they’ll roast a goat...
...offer these insights to help readers understand why this fall’s first-ever Harvard LGBT Reunion is so important. Akin to similar LGBT reunions held at other Ivy League schools such as Dartmouth as well as those for other Harvard alumni subgroups such as African-Americans, Harvard’s first-ever LGBT Reunion offers the university a chance to reconnect with a group of alumni who are often alienated from the university and wary of attending its events. It offers Harvard the chance to show how it has changed for the better and that the Harvard...
...excited me to consider the American analogy in the cases of Africa and African countries,” said Matthew R. Tierney ’09 “What if there are these foundations [set up] to allow people in the developing world to network together and share ideas...