Word: maria
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...DIED. MARIA ROSA HENSON, 69, the first Filipina to reveal that she had served as a sex slave for Japanese soldiers during World War II; of a heart attack; in Manila. One of 46 "comfort women" who filed suit against Japan in 1993, Henson was among the few who accepted compensation from a private fund and a letter of apology from Japan's Prime Minister...
...MARIA DO CARMO GERONIMO, 126 PROOF: Baptismal record issued by the Roman Catholic Church. BRUSH WITH HISTORY: Her back bears scars from her 19th century slave master in Brazil. VICE: Only her priest knows. ODDS: The sentimental favorite, but she's never been able to sway the judges in the past...
...they're sure. In the current issue of Science, Jose Maria Bermudez de Castro, of Madrid's Center for Scientific Investigation, and his colleagues maintain that their fossils belong to a new, possibly cannibalistic species of early man that roamed Europe nearly 800,000 years ago. Called Homo antecessor (from a Latin word meaning "explorer"), this creature may be the last common ancestor shared by modern humans and Neanderthals...
...express a range of views on their role as teachers. Maria K. Blees '97, a former CS-50 TF, says she sees herself as more of a facilitator than a primary instructor...
...undergraduate TF you might feel too sympathetic to people because you know what they're going through," says Maria K. Blees '97, who has been...