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...richly elastic, but little in this rapid life-style conspires to stretch them. In fact the reverse is true, as TV commercials shrink to 15- second flashes and popular novels contain paragraphs no longer than two sentences. "I do things in a lot of 3 1/2-minute segments," muses UCLA anthropologist Peter Hammond. "Experience just sort of rolls by me. I think it affects the quality of my work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: How America Has Run Out of Time | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

Whitten says that he swims to keep in shape and stay healthy. But he has another reason for swimming that relates to his studies as a behavioral anthropologist. For a long time, Whitten has been interested in gerontology, which is study of aging...

Author: By Kevin Toh, | Title: Master in the Pool and Lecture Hall | 4/15/1989 | See Source »

...Kenyan's comments were not quite as advertised. According to an anthropologist at the University of Cincinnati, who saw the spot when it aired on NBC, the new pitchman was actually saying, "I don't want these. Give me big shoes." Nike contends that an earlier script called for the tribesman's ironic comment, but the company decided in the end to stick with its slogan in the subtitle. Nike plans to keep running the spot during TV specials, so viewers will still have an opportunity to brush up on their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising: If the Inamuk Fits . . . | 2/20/1989 | See Source »

Inequalities within the Black community in South Africa are largely the result of a severe shortage of living space, a Cape Town anthropologist told a packed lecture room in Longfellow Hall last night...

Author: By Glenn Slater, | Title: South African Activist: Space Shortage Is Severe | 2/10/1989 | See Source »

...When we started there was nothing about the Middle East here [at Harvard] in the post-World War II era," he says. "So I was working with the anthropologist Carl Coon trying to get a program started. At that time there was only the Semitic Languages Department, and that was kind of dormant...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: Of Ancient Scrolls and Scriptures... | 10/21/1988 | See Source »

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