Word: guinea
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...when Ghana got its independence from Britain in 1957, was overthrown following widespread discontent over food shortages, corruption and extravagant government spending. Ghana has since become a case study in African nationalism gone wrong, and lately a prototype for young African countries beset with similar problems. In West Africa, Guinea-Bissau, Upper Volta and Liberia have all suffered similar revolutions within the past two years; The Gambia and Sierra Leone have narrowly avoided similar revolts. Much of the difficulty, as Rawlings insists, stems from government elites that squander resources and are unable to control their economies...
...death. Others carry posters and papier-mâché displays, an explosion of street art mocking the U.S., tearing with outrageous simplicity at the fabric of mutual interest that the U.S. and Western Europe have woven so patiently for 30 years. The signs vilify: "We are not America's Guinea Pigs," "Today's Children are Tomorrow's Dead," "Reagan: Your Bomb will not be our Tomb." The chants taunt: "We don't want to fight Reagan's War," "No Euroshima...
...Jerusalem's Hebrew University, Nairn and French Neurobiologist Jacques Le Magnen spoke to a gathering sponsored by the European Chemoreception Research Organization, joining some two dozen other scholars who reported on such topics as the sniffing power of infants, the sex life of guinea pigs and a three-nation T shirt-smelling study...
Psychobiologist Gary Beauchamp of Philadelphia reported that the odor of female guinea pig urine is such a powerful stimulus to the male that it loses interest in mating if its sense of smell is impaired. When Beauchamp removed the male's vomeronasal organ, which relays odor information to the brain, sexual activity declined. In the wild, after the removal of the vomeronasal organ, even guinea pigs near their mates sometimes cannot find them...
...Normally, one would want a photograph, specimen or more than one observer," says Roger Tory Peterson, noted ornithologist-artist. "But Diamond seems credible, and, knowing New Guinea, I am not surprised by his boat trouble." According to Donald Bruning, curator of birds at the Bronx Zoo, Diamond is "one of the half-dozen people most qualified to identify this bowerbird...