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...anthropologists bother to do fieldwork at all? Nigel Barley, an anthropologist and African specialist at London's Museum of Mankind, ponders the question in this witty memoir of his hapless adventures. Some go to grind an ax or two, as students of Margaret Mead now know. But Barley believes that most anthropologists pursue fieldwork for its cheery reminiscences and lifelong opportunities to one-up colleagues who have never traveled. Experience abroad, he says, confers a "valuable aura of eccentricity upon the really rather dull denizens of anthropology departments...
...health coverage for workers, led a phenomenal lobbying blitz. A $6 million ad campaign included one twelve-minute film that described taxing fringe benefits as "the worst little horror show in taxes" and showed a Dracula character, presumably the U.S. Government, ready to suck the blood out of the hapless taxpayer. The Administration changed its mind...
...hoary belief involves dinosaur stupidity: the hapless creatures died out because their bodies continued to grow bigger while their brains remained small. Indeed, cranium measurements seem to indicate that at least some species were not terribly cerebral: one type of brontosaurus, for example, weighed about 30 tons, and probably had only a half-pound brain. If the dinosaurs did indeed become progressively less intelligent, the theory goes, they would have lost the ability to adapt to changes in the environment...
...surprise, the Harvard women's tennis team trounced a hapless Cornell squad, 9-0, Saturday at Beren Courts...
...game was enough to bring tears to the eyes of any loyal B.C. fans who made the trek across the river to Bright Center, as the Crimson rolled to a 8-2 victory over the hapless Eagles...