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...Daniel Janzen, 47, is a tenured professor of biology at the University of Pennsylvania, but for the past 14 years his home has been a rented, tin-roofed cabin in an isolated Central American wilderness. The location, Santa Rosa National Park on Costa Rica's Pacific coast, is ideal for his favorite pursuits: rambling across abandoned pasture, collecting seeds and caterpillars, weighing and identifying trapped mice, netting insects by night -- work he calls "muddy-your-boots biology." Janzen, in fact, spends so little time in Philadelphia that he maintains no residence there. He prefers to sleep...
...ascetically inclined scientist has had to put away his muddy boots and pursue a very different kind of fieldwork in big-city hotels and on the lecture circuit. The reason: in collaboration with the Nature Conservancy International, he is attempting to raise $11.8 million for an unprecedented ecological experiment. Janzen plans to use the money to buy 158 sq. mi. of Costa Rican terrain surrounding Santa Rosa and re-create a virtually extinct ecosystem known as tropical dry forest. He has already named the proposed refuge Guanacaste National Park...
Ysrael led the Harvard attack, with four scores. The Bruins countered with the best polo player that the Crimson will face this year--Suzie Janzen, who notched five tallies and dominated inside play at both ends of the pool...
Friday at 4.30 p.m. at Blodgett, the aquawomen have their first real showdown of the year with their archrivals from Brown, and the going will be a whole lot rougher for Wood. She will take on the premier female water polo player the Crimson faces this year in Susie Janzen...
Brown is the Eastern water polo powerhouse. It's men's team regularly dominates non-California play and shows well in the NCAA's. Its women, keyed by Janzen and a standout goalie Audrey Wolfolk, are starting a dynasty of their own, and Harvard's aquawomen would love to play giant-killer...