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...best way to deal with the real Harvard is to view it as one vast laboratory experiment cooked up to examine the darker regions of the human character. You can't help being a guinea pig--you're already here...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: . . .and More Than You Bargained for | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

Taylor's rebels had evacuated most foreigners--but not scores of Guineans and Nigerians--from Monrovia's battlefront in an 18-vehicle convoy on Wednesday. Guinea and Nigeria are participating in the West African peacekeeping force...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Liberian Foes Agree to Meet | 8/17/1990 | See Source »

Forty-five years ago many students, myself among them, volunteered to be guinea-pigs in medical experiments with no compensation. We felt the experiments were important and trusted our mentors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Guinea Pigs? | 7/31/1990 | See Source »

Suddenly, my excitement had turned to horror at the thought of my becoming a human guinea...

Author: By Philip M. Rubin, | Title: Selling Our Bodies | 7/10/1990 | See Source »

...more than 50%, creating a demand for a new type of worker. Computers and communications equipment do not require strength or aggressiveness, and this has helped transform the role of women in industrial societies. These changes go on today at the edges of the information age. In New Guinea, for example, rural men skilled in warfare and hunting are by turns mystified and mortified when they have to deal with women as equals if not superiors in modern banks and offices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Dashed Hopes and Bogus Fears | 6/11/1990 | See Source »

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