Word: guinea
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suit filed last week asks for $1 million for suffering and $3 million in punitive damages for each test subject "to deter defendants from ever again using human beings ... as guinea pigs for experimental procedures...
...international interest in African films throughout the United States, The African Film Festival, Inc. (AFF), in conjunction with the Film Society of Lincoln Center, has organized the African Film Festival Traveling Series. Seven films are presented during this tour of African cinema. The films hail from Zimbabwe, Burundi, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Burkina Faso, and Tanzania...
...Blue Eyes of Yonta' opens the Festival with a mild view of Guinea-Bissau twenty years after the freedom movement's successful revolt against the Portuguese colonial government. Director Flora Gomes focuses on Yonta, a beautiful store clerk, who attracts attention as she walks through her hometown. One young man, Ze, becomes so enamored by her presence that he copies poems which praise 'her blue eyes,'--she has brown eyes--and sends them...
...student body should not be guinea pigs for continual classification studies. The ridiculous abundance of cultural clubs at Harvard seems to indicate that the only way Harvard students feel social progress will emerge is through division and segregation. That was part of our history, it should not be part of our future...
...substance produces certain debilitating symptoms in a healthy person, he reasoned, then a small dose could be used to treat the same symptoms in an ill patient. Hahnemann called his new method of healing "homeopathy," from the Greek homoios (like) and pathos (suffering). Using his seven children as guinea pigs, he began testing hundreds of plants and minerals, eventually compiling the list of substances and symptoms that forms the core of today's Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia...