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...Radcliffe Trust, funded by the College and the new Radcliffe Institute, will develop a grant process this year under the leadership of Assistant Dean of the College Karen E. Avery '87. The trust will take over the programmatic responsibilities of the two-year-old Harvard College Women's Initiative, which sponsors lectures and awards related to women's issues...

Author: By Rosalind S. Helderman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard, Radcliffe To Sign Finalized Merger This Week | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

Such souped-up plants are understandably popular with farmers, for whom even a slight increase in yield can mean a big increase in profits. Last year in the U.S., 35% of the soy crop and 42% of the cotton crop were grown with GM seeds. Says Karen Marshall, a Monsanto spokeswoman: "These really do work and have tremendous benefits to growers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food Fight | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

Bill Sims and Karen Wilson meet in 1967 in Ohio, where Bill, who is black, is regularly harassed for consorting with a white girl. The family eventually moves to Queens, N.Y., and thrives as a benevolent, good-humored fortress. But as elder daughter Cicily finds at college, the outside world eventually intrudes. The most hurtful prejudice she encounters is from black classmates--a situation that comes to a head when she spends a semester in Africa that deepens and complicates her identity. And yet that self-fulfilling racist caution, "What about the children?," hardly obtains. Both Cicily and her sister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Two Colors, One Bond | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

...subject. A blues guitarist whose career has stalled, he has grown depressed and developed a drinking problem. Moreover, we learn, he left two other children at an early age. When he returns to find his son facing prison, we see a stark negative of the nurturing idyll he and Karen have created. Yet Bill comes off as a devoted, likable father and husband who offers sharp insights on race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Two Colors, One Bond | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

...Whitney Museum of American Art canceled the Great American Nude show, which had an installation by performance artist Karen Finley, below. The decision came days after the Supreme Court ruled against Finley, saying federal arts funding could be withheld on decency grounds. The Whitney cited "lack of funding." The show is now at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stand By Your Artist (If No One Minds) | 9/6/1999 | See Source »

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