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...specialist on the Pacific Rim. Japan bashing easily becomes Asian bashing. The most famous case is the 1982 murder of Chinese American Vincent Chin by Detroit autoworkers who thought he was Japanese. As late as 1985 and 1986, violence against Asians jumped 50% in Los Angeles County. Says Henry Der of Chinese for Affirmative Action: "We're still vulnerable because of what we look like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Strangers In Paradise | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

...several occasions I have shot mamba, which are the most poisonous snakes around. The snakes are extremely fast," says Clay Professor of Archaeology Nicolaas J. van der Merwe. He encountered the snakes while surveying a South African game reserve for possible Iron Age vilage sites...

Author: By Brett R. Huff, | Title: HARVARD ARCHAEOLOGISTS and the SEARCH FOR THE ANCIENT PAST | 3/23/1990 | See Source »

...pioneers of an isotope tracing process that indicates the composition of diets in early humans, van der Merwe is a good example of the wide range of scientists that have broadened archaeological inquiry...

Author: By Brett R. Huff, | Title: HARVARD ARCHAEOLOGISTS and the SEARCH FOR THE ANCIENT PAST | 3/23/1990 | See Source »

...just do the collecting in the field and get the samples into condition so that you can travel with them [to the lab]," says van der Merwe...

Author: By Brett R. Huff, | Title: HARVARD ARCHAEOLOGISTS and the SEARCH FOR THE ANCIENT PAST | 3/23/1990 | See Source »

...grew up in Africa and have just a very different idea about what it is that makes life worth while," says van der Merwe. "Traipsing around in the bushes is one of those...

Author: By Brett R. Huff, | Title: HARVARD ARCHAEOLOGISTS and the SEARCH FOR THE ANCIENT PAST | 3/23/1990 | See Source »

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