Word: guinea
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John Paul has never stepped back from difficulties, and he looks forward to an arduous 1995 agenda. First up is a scheduled 10-day trip in January to Papua New Guinea, Australia, Sri Lanka and the Philippines, where the Archbishop of Manila is in open conflict with the country's Protestant President over population control. The Pope is also laying strategy for the 1995 U.N. World Conference on Women in Beijing, which figures to be a replay of Cairo. In June, he plans to meet with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the leader of the Eastern Orthodox Church. John Paul...
...Mayr dropped his medical education midway and switched to studying biology when he decided to embark on scientific expeditions. After earning a Ph.D. in zoology, he studied birds in New Guinea for two years...
...tried it out on my poor guinea pig class," he says. "I like it better than what I had been doing. I had everything but the kitchen sink in the course [last year...
...when Grant Colfax got into Harvard after having been taught by his parents his entire life. Grant graduated magna cum laude, became a Fulbright scholar and graduated from Harvard Medical School. One by one, his home- schooled brothers followed suit. "Our kids were more or less the guinea pigs," says Micki Colfax, who along with husband David home schooled all four Colfax children from their home in Boonville, California (pop. 750). "Their going to Harvard validated what home schooling was all about...
Some E.A.I. opponents charge that the situation has been improving and that radical action was premature; others admit the need for reform but question the method. "We are guinea pigs," says David Mulholland, president of the Connecticut Federation of School Administrators, "and if this experiment doesn't work, the people who will suffer are our kids." Behind all is the question of what will be the driving motive: Improving schools or improving E.A.I.'s bottom line? "This whole business about it being a win-win situation, that they can serve their customers and profit as well, is too glib," charges...