Word: madagascan
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Richard, an anthropologist and expert on the Madagascan lemur, holds an undergraduate degree from Cambridge University and doctorate from London University. She later joined the faculty at Yale, and eventually rose to the post of provost in her 30-year career there. Richard was the first full-time female vice chancellor in Cambridge’s 800-year history, according to the University of Cambridge Web site. A former professor of Richard’s said she would be a good candidate for Harvard’s top post...
...plots. Crossing domestic corn varieties with this maize produces hardy hybrids that should ultimately be worth billions of dollars to farmers. A great many of the prescription drugs sold in the U.S. are based on unique chemical compounds found in tropical plants. For example, vincristine, originally isolated from the Madagascan periwinkle, is used to treat some human cancers. Scientists are convinced that still undiscovered forest plants could be the source of countless new natural drugs...
Died. Andy Razaf, 77, lyricist whose hits included Honeysuckle Rose, Ain't Misbehavin', Stompin' at the Savoy and Milkman's Matinee; in Los Angeles. The son of a Madagascan nobleman, Razaf (real name: Andrea Paul Razafkeriefo) was born in Washington, D.C., after his father had been killed and his mother had fled during a French invasion of Madagascar in 1895. He wrote more than 1,000 songs during the '20s and '30s and in 1972 was elected to the Songwriters Hall of Fame...
...craftsmen were rarely violent and seldom vicious: for all their burdens, they tended to look upon their foreign masters with both humor and indulgence. It was the strange habits of the white men that intrigued them. Hats and shoes were something new, so one Madagascan artist sculpted a colonial wearing nothing else. In the Congo, an anonymous sculptor did a thick-lipped white sailor guzzling a mug of beer. The sailor wears a cap, a striped shirt, and seems properly in uniform-except that he is naked from the waist down...
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