Word: northwesterner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trouble first surfaced about three years ago. Rangers in Pilanesberg National Park, in northwestern South Africa, began to notice that white rhinos were being killed at the rate of about one a month. Then the same phenomenon started happening at Hluhluwe-Umfolozi Park, in the southeastern section of the country. Poachers looking for precious horns are the usual suspects when rhinos turn up dead. But not this time. These animals were left intact, horns and all. Their wounds, moreover, had been caused not by gunshots but by long, sharp objects with some mass to them...
...think it is ethically reprehensible that the Tribune would sue a campus paper in an effort to drive them out of the market," said Michael M. Lazarus, the founder of University Wire and a 1996 graduate from the Northwestern School of Journalism...
...small subset of these brain chemicals, especially serotonin, evidently serves an entirely different purpose. As Steven Hyman, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, describes it, "These neurotransmitters modulate raw information and give it its emotional tone." Northwestern University psychiatrist James Stockard puts it more poetically: "A person's mood is like a symphony, and serotonin is like the conductor's baton." Other neurotransmitters help us know our stomachs are full; serotonin tells us whether we feel satisfied. Other chemicals help us perceive the water level in a glass; serotonin helps us decide whether we will think...
...Northwestern officials also expressed delight at Honig's acceptance of their offer of tenure...
Incoming chair of the political science department at Notherwestern University Michael Wallerstein said Honig was "the very best of the applicant pool," and called her departure "a great loss for Harvard, and a great gain for Northwestern...