Word: biannually
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...Harvard College’s biannual traditions will go the way of the slide rule this fall, as registration day—the ritual gathering of every College student in Harvard Yard to sign cards acclaiming their presence on campus—migrates to cyberspace...
After more than a year of steadily worsening reports from famine-stricken Africa, there is finally a glimmer of good news. In preparation for the opening of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) biannual conference in Rome last week, Director-General Edouard Saouma announced that Africa's best rains in years were producing record harvests in some areas. As a result, only five of the 21 African countries that needed emergency food aid this year--Angola, Botswana, Ethiopia, Mozambique and Sudan--remain on the list, and in 1986 Africa will need less than half the 7 million...
...Heritage Foods USA, the largest mail-order firm in the business, was buying five 200-lb. hogs a month from Lazy S but is ratcheting up to 25 a month to meet demand. Besides Red Wattles, named for their ruddy hair and folds of neck skin, the company's biannual "almanac" offers 70 products, from Tunis lamb to Bourbon Red turkeys. "Dozens of delicious American treasures with a long history are on the brink of extinction," says Patrick Martins, co-founder of the company. "We must eat them to save them...
...chair, Gates will be more active in choosing the juries that select the finalists for the 21 Pulitzer Prizes. He will also lead the biannual meetings of the 18-member board that selects which finalist in each category will receive the award...
...Some baby steps to help women have been taken. The Astronomy Society of Japan, for example, has provided day-care at its biannual meetings since 1997. Pressure from business and the Japanese Ministry of Education has nudged things along. Last month, the Chemical Society of Japan, which has had just two female board members since its founding in 1878, decided to reserve one of its 26 board seats for a woman. But Japan has a long way to go before it fully utilizes the female half of its national brainpower. "I joke that women scientists have the advantage...