Word: isolationism
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Despite this historic isolation from China, when Chiang Kai-shek first sent troops to Taiwan after World War II, the Taiwanese initially welcomed them, thinking that the Chinese would rule more fairly than the Japanese. 2-28 shattered these hopes. Soon after the massacre, martial law and an extensive secret...
Recently, the research Folkman began in 1961has led to some of the most promising discoveriesin cancer treatment. The isolation of angiogenesisinhibitors, endostatin and angiostatin, by Dr.Michael O'Reilly, a member of Folkman's researchgroup, has been a major breakthrough.
"It all goes back to Joe Cook. Before, thecatalog process felt impersonal and out of mycontrol completely," Borges says, noting that thefeeling of isolation naturally worsens as the Webreplaces human interaction.
"There was an isolation surrounding Af-Am," he says. "There was an us vs. them mentality."
Other pioneering black students in the contemporary era experienced similarly racist attitudes at the College, along with a sharp sense of isolation. In "Travels With Charlie: In Search of Afro-America" Herbert W. Nickens '69 recalled his painful adjustment freshman year.