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Even anthropology is making a courtroom contribution. University of North Carolina Anthropologist Louise Robbins applies the same procedures used on prehistoric footprints to modern mysteries. "There are 46 points of measurement and 120 points to examine for shape," she says. "I have not yet found even so-called identical twins with absolutely identical foot prints." She can identify barefoot prints as well as match a shoe to its wearer. Says Robbins: "If you'll check your shoes, you can see the marks for your toes...
...such shows as The Shadow Box and Children of a Lesser God. Last week he opened the first of two new plays with a Southern California theme-a belated celebration of the 200th birthday of Los Angeles. Titled Number Our Days, it is based on University of Southern California Anthropologist Barbara Myerhoffs study of a community of elderly Jews in a seedy part of Venice. The play attempts to examine not only what it means to be Jewish in America, but what it means to be old. It is an ambitious undertaking, clearly too large for Playwright Suzanne Grossmann, whose...
...would find, however, those who disagree with his contention. The entire system of immigration is at odds with the tribal idea of self, according to Louis Dupree '49, an anthropologist at Pennsylvania State University who has done field work in Afrghanistan. A friend of Qul, Dupree has set out to see that he and his tribe do get to Alaska. The immigration authorities look at individuals as individuals and deals with them as such, Dupree says. The individual in a tribal society considers himself part of this group; this, Dupree says, has led to mistakes on the part of immigration...
...Kirghiz, regardless of their suffering at the hands of the Russians, maintain no ties with the United States other than their involvement with Dupree, Jones, and Nassif Shahrani--an anthropologist at UCLA who has done field work with the Kirghiz in Afghanistan. As a result, Lynch says, Qul and his tribe do not stand a chance on earth of qualifying for the U.S. refugee program...
...Anthropologist Richard Leakey opens his tour d'horizon by describing some of his own finds, including the famed skull 1470 that revealed Homo habilis, the first true man, to be more than 2 million years old. Always giving credit where it is due, Leakey goes on to describe the earlier findings in South Africa of Raymond Dart and Robert Broom, who unearthed human ancestors more than 3 million years old, as well as to discuss Don Johanson's dramatic discovery of Lucy, the famous four-foot-tall Ethiopian who walked upright at least 3 million years...