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...from pamphlets handed out in the course of routine prenatal care, and too often the message there is sugarcoated. "They talk about 'making your baby better' or 'having a better birth outcome' instead of talking about the fact that this is really a test about selective termination," says medical anthropologist Nancy Press of Oregon Health Sciences University. The failure to make explicit that message--and the decision it forces--says Press, "is simply, clearly, morally wrong...
...international research team, that mystery may finally be starting to unravel. In mid-October, archaeologists stumbled across a burial chamber deep inside Teotihuacan's massive Pyramid of the Moon. Inside they found a skeleton and more than 150 artifacts probably dating to about A.D. 150. It is, exults anthropologist Michael Spence of the University of Western Ontario, "a fantastic find...
...Mayan counterparts, though, Teotihuacan has yielded very few inscriptions, and those are in a hieroglyphic language that archaeologists have not yet been able to decipher. The city's celebrated painted murals don't provide many clues either. "There are very few glimpses of daily life," complains Arizona State University anthropologist George Cowgill. The best information scientists have to date comes from a series of mass graves discovered about a decade ago in the so-called Feathered Serpent Pyramid by Cowgill, his Arizona State colleague Saburo Sugiyama and Ruben Cabrera of Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History. Most...
...kitchen. "The only thing missing in our Cambridge home is dried grass and charcoal fire," Watson says. During their first village study in the Hong Kong New Territories (circa late 1960), Watson's wife and fellow anthropologist, Rubie Watson, learned to cook authentic country-style Cantonese food. Watson hastens to add, "I do all the buying, chopping, cleaning, polishing, and washing-up afterwards...
strip. "As an anthropologist," Watson says, "I was very glad to hear that...