Word: brazile
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...world Dolores shares with Jeff is that of the Krikati Indians of Brazil, the focus of her dissertation. When Dolores returned to Brazil for two years early in their marriage to continue her research, Jeff accompanied her--and developed a lifelong interest in cross-cultural psychology. Because of their different training, they emerged with different impressions of Brazil--making their experience all the richer. "We serve as intellectual expansion devices for each other," says Dolores...
...starters, the Kyoto protocol on global warming is awaiting ratification. Browner made an astute observation that one of the main difficulties experienced by the Clinton administration in ratifying the Kyoto protocol is the inadequate coverage of interests represented by developing countries. If China, India, Brazil and most of Africa still consider national action plans for mitigating global warming as an unaffordable luxury in the context of a lopsided global trade and development establishment, then substantial environmental peddling remains to be done by the U.S. Unfortunately, the U.S.-sponsored Country Studies Program, the highly successful multi-agency program dedicated to assist...
...Since the class of poverty-wage workers on campus numbers in the thousands and is comprised by immigrants from Haiti, Jamaica, Brazil and Mexico as well as blacks and whites, any generalization about "the experience" of a typical Harvard janitor or dishwasher is bound to be superficial. But life on $7-per-hour in the preposterously expensive Boston metro region does present certain standard challenges. Skyrocketing rents force a mean choice for Harvard's janitors, dining workers and security guards: Work literally 85 hours a week to bring home the money needed to pay the $1,100 one-bedroom rents...
Three years ago, an Indian from the Amazonian backwaters arrived at the house in Manaus, Brazil, of biologist Marc van Roosmalen holding a tin can with a little monkey shivering inside. "'Oh, no. Not another one,' I thought," recalls the Dutchman. He didn't need another monkey. Already he and his wife Betty, an artist, were caring for 50 orphaned monkeys, who swung in and out of mischief in the garden. Gingerly, Van Roosmalen poked a finger at the small ball of copper-colored fur. It squeaked fearfully...
...quest led Van Roosmalen into a previously unstudied region of the Amazon, bursting with biodiversity. So far, he and his colleagues have identified seven never before seen species of primates, a distinct species of peccary (a wild pig), a lost cousin of the Brazil-nut tree and an anthurium with leaves bigger than elephant ears. And best of all, Van Roosmalen stumbled on traces of an agricultural technique--invented by Stone Age tribes around 10,000 years ago--that may help save the Amazon from the damage caused by farmers who slash and burn the forest to clear land...