Word: africas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stationed next to a large white milk bottle that doubles as a refreshment stand, Summer Splash's new yellow and blue awning houses a series of waterfalls that are designed to show children how gravity and other natural forces affect the movement of rivers, lakes and even wells in Africa...
...third exhibit uses clear hoses and wooden parts to demonstrate the mechanism of a well that Eaton says was fashioned in Africa. "This is how they use gravity to get water in certain parts of Africa," she says. "They move the wheel against gravity and pump the water up to a certain height, and then it falls. See? The children wouldn't be able to see that if the hoses were opaque or green or something. The clear ones demonstrate a natural fact...
...Biochemistry Department from 1968 to 1971, and retired from Harvard in 1982. From 1966-69, he chaired the biochemistry section of the National Academy of Sciences. He said his work has aided in the development of a compound that cures sleeping sickness, a fatal disease found most commonly in Africa...
...believes that U.S. policy, in dealing with South Africa or any repressive regime, should be an unambiguous reflection of American values -- freedom, democracy, human rights -- rather than a cold calculation of strategic interests...
...nosed, realpolitik approach to strategic interests. In this regard, he is reminiscent of Jimmy Carter, which could be a source of trouble. That is evident in Dukakis' emphasis on human rights in the Soviet Union and elsewhere, and it underlies his vigorous opposition to Reagan's approach to southern Africa. Dukakis argues that the most important source of America's influence in the world, and of sustained domestic support for its foreign policy, is the belief that the nation is committed to freedom and social justice. To restore that faith, he believes that the U.S. must be unequivocal...