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...only discouragement about the unresponsiveness of U.S. Government that keeps Weiss away from antiwar protest. He now spends 14 hours a day engrossed in becoming a research anthropologist. He is an able, warm teacher of undergraduate courses at the University of Michigan, where he is working on a Ph.D. after earning his M.A. at the University of New Mexico. Also an able economizer, Weiss saves most of his $1,500 pay to help finance his research trips. This week he leaves on his second expedition. Headed for a four-month stint in tiny Indian villages in Colombia and Nicaragua...
...scientists that he had been unable to fend for himself. They surmised that his fellows kept him alive until he met his death in an accidental rockfall inside the cave, a common peril for these communal hunters who lived from 100,000 to 40,000 years ago. Comments Anthropologist Carleton S. Coon: "On the grounds of behavior alone, the Shanidar folk merit the title of Homo sapiens...
...Washington march for peace has become a highly ritualized affair -something that an anthropologist might call a "cultic in-gathering," an annual coming together that is part circus, part festival, part political mass meeting. Last week its time came round again, and in balmy spring weather a crowd estimated by police at 200,000 -one of Washington's largest ever -streamed down Pennsylvania Avenue to assemble before the west front of the U.S. Capitol. On the same day, in San Francisco, 125,000 demonstrators formed a six-mile parade down Geary Boulevard into Golden Gate Park; they were...
...national product, to $1,065 billion for the year. The debate intensified last week as Administration officials testified before the congressional Joint Economic Committee and encountered skepticism even from some Republican members. Representative Barber Conable of New York said that the forecast reminded him of a remark by an anthropologist friend: "The Zuñis realized that the rain dance didn't bring the rain, but it made the tribe feel better...
From these fragile bones, a Rumanian-born anatomist and anthropologist at Jerusalem's Hebrew University, Nicu Haas, was able to put together a surprisingly detailed picture of the young man: in his mid-20s at the time of his death, he was of average height for the period (5 ft. 5 in.), had delicate, pleasing features that seemed to approach the Hellenistic ideal, probably wore a beard, and apparently had never performed any really arduous labor-indicating his possible upper-class origins. Except for the injuries inflicted during his crucifixion, he seemed to have been in exceptionally fine health...