Word: guinea
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rockefeller family established the fellowships--awarded annually to four Harvard seniors--to honor Michael C. Rockefeller '60, who died while on a post-graduation trip to Papua, New Guinea...
...first-year Med School students who are the New Pathway's first-year guinea pigs began their studies immediately confronted with clinical cases--from acne to appendicitis--as the context for learning basic medical principles. Prompted to ask the right questions instead of memorizing the right answers, students in the six-person tutorials that form the core of the program have responded enthusiastically, taking charge of their own learning...
These small, low-risk economic bodies, which have sprouted throughout China, are an important component of Deng Xiaoping's second revolution. They serve as manageable guinea pigs, where the authorities can tinker with flexible production lines or even try out such foreign devices as stockholding and mergers. "We have a saying," explains Shen Yuanlong, director of the Peking- based State Administration for Industry and Commerce, " 'A small boat can turn back more easily...
...strokes. His wife died of cancer. To support himself he had to do tourist views and kitsch portraits in the Lake District village where, at 60, he died. But he never stopped working, and what a friend called the distinctive "Schwitters aroma"--an amalgam of glue, flour paste and guinea pigs, the portable pets of his exile--followed him to the end of his days...
...made his grisly mark. Whenever cattle cars filled with detainees rolled into the camp, Mengele was there to greet the new arrivals. With a nonchalant flick of his hand, he consigned some to labor duty, some to the gas chambers. Those who survived often ended up as human guinea pigs in the doctor's special lab, where he performed a variety of ghoulish experiments in genetics...