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Janet W. Rich started her thesis research by exploring the breast-feeding and reproductive habits of primates in Kenya to examine the connection between breast-feeding and the return of ovulation in women. She ended up dropping the primate angle and spent two-and-a-half months on a small island off the northern coast of Australia studying breast-feeding in an aborigine tribe. The resulting thesis for the Anthropology Department proved that given certain breast-feeding habits, women can delay the return to ovulation by 14 to 15 months...

Author: By Victoria G.T. Bassetti, | Title: Exploring Peru, Bluegrass and Vogue | 6/7/1984 | See Source »

...thesis, which compared Yolngu breast-feeding habits with those of the !Kung of Africa and the La Leche League of Boston, a local advocacy group. The study, she says, has implications for the growing movement for the return to breast-feeding. "There are a lot of people calling for a return to breast-feeding. Breast-feeding is very good aside from these fertility-delaying effects. But with a greater number of women enter, the workforce, the debate is becoming more difficult and fewer women can breast-feed," she says.CrimsonTimothy W. PlassEAMES DEMETRIOS...

Author: By Victoria G.T. Bassetti, | Title: Exploring Peru, Bluegrass and Vogue | 6/7/1984 | See Source »

Actually, sexual harassment is not that difficult to recognize. Sexual harassment is a professor talking about having a "magic tongue." It is grabbing a student's breast or lying on the floor and staring up her skirt...It is not, in the vast majority of cases, ambiguous behavior. It is not, as some imply, a figment of a students' imagination or a weapon women use to damage men's reputations. These worries are usually expressed by men and women who have had little experience dealing with harassment cases or who impose confusion on themselves...

Author: By Amy. E. Schwartz, | Title: Clearing Up the Harassment Mystique | 5/21/1984 | See Source »

...point he cannot resist beginning to sketch a simplistic, two-toned play about a milk truck and a coal truck. Often, too, he is so ready to find himself guilty of every kind of moral inattention and to punish himself unsparingly that his soul searching comes to resemble breast beating. Yet Fugard's relentless self-scrutiny guards him from the traps of self-indulgence. "Do I pose?" he asks himself. "I don't think so-but I'm very given to tears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Out of Africa | 4/30/1984 | See Source »

...Northeast and the Midwest. Next on their agenda is a tour of the West Coast. In the midst of their schedule last week they took time out to power-lunch at one of their favorite restaurants, Chicago's Chez Paul. The menu consisted of sirloin steak rare, breast of duck rare, sliced tomato and raw onion with Roquefort dressing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Power Lunches | 4/16/1984 | See Source »

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