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...There are, to be sure, many previous regular Faculty appointments of professors who teach about various aspects of ethnicity in the United States," Dominguez said. "Nonetheless, [FAS] will certainly benefit from the Dean's decision to increase for yet one more time the teaching resources to the study of ethnicity...
...election victory, another celebrated incumbent was fighting for his job. Ron Carey, the reform leader of the Teamsters union, had become the darling of the labor movement--and the labor press--during his five-year tenure. But working Teamsters, who had seen no significant pay or benefit increases during that time, weren't so enamored. In fact, "they were ready to throw the bum out," says a former Carey aide. The challenger, James P. Hoffa, son of the notorious former Teamsters leader, was coming on strong with a multimillion-dollar war chest. To save their man, Carey aides began...
According to Estrada, now that the two groups have become officially recognized by PBHA, they can benefit from its funding sources. They will also have access to PBHA resources such as vans, recruiting sessions and fundraising tools. They will also become members of the PBHA Cabinet...
Moments like this are typical of Cox's experience as he scours the world's flora in search of plants that will benefit Western medicine. Cox has spent years in Samoa interviewing or apprenticing himself to traditional healers. He has also traveled throughout the South Pacific, as well as in Southeast Asia, South America, East Africa and as far north as Sweden's Lapland. In Samoa alone, healers have led him and his colleagues to 74 medicinal plants that might prove useful...
...dreams that one day soon the people of Western Samoa will see the benefit of preserving not only the rain forests surrounding their villages but also the vast cloud forests that still cloak the sides of the volcanoes that form the spine of Savai'i. Here he hopes the villagers will agree to "make the biggest national park in the whole world," before the chain saws get there too. He wants them to become as excited about the project as he is, rather than have the impetus come from outside. Behind this goal lies a philosophy that runs through...