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For instance, our section leader told us that Geertz formulated his conception of ideology by studying pre-industrial, largely oral cultures. Yet Foner uses that same term, and in the same way, (at least Foner says he does), to describe a culture in which the mass media was the prmiary...
This unsettling premise is set up in the opening minutes of, oddly enough, a comedy, the first noteworthy new play of the Broadway season, which officially began in May. Burn This starts out as a sly sketch of the way we live now, making fun equally of hip characters onstage...
Hunt is quick to defend the animal research as humane as well, carefully controlled, and sparingly used at the center. He says many researchers now use tissue cultures, DNA studies, and other "alternative" methods rather than live monkeys in studies to study the effects of disease. In the 1960s, he...
Hunt says that although the center was not prepared to do research on immune systems at the time of this discovery, it began to use cultures from the diseased monkeys in research at the center. He says AIDS research now makes up about a quarter of the center's work...
The following letter refers to a write-up of Professor of Sociology Orlando Patterson's Core offering, Foreign Cultures 46, `Caribbean Societies: Socio-Economic Change and Cultural Adaptations", that appeared in The Crimson's 1987-88 Confidential Guide to Courses.