Word: originated
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...Matthew D. Roberts '84, $1500, for his thesis entitled "A God Outgrown: As Analysis of the Origin and Development of Students for a Democratic Society 1960-1969"--Rebecca Klatch, Teaching Fellow...
...products is flourishing. According to experts at the World Wildlife Fund, the annual global trade of live animals, ivory, and skin-covered objects such as shoes and handbags runs between $2 billion and $5 billion. The fund contends that up to a third of these items are of illegal origin. Illicit trading has reached such alarming proportions that this week in Washington the fund's international president, Prince Philip of Britain, is announcing a vigorous new campaign to save endangered wildlife. The operation, endorsed by the U.S. Justice and Interior departments, will call upon industrialized and affluent countries...
Wildlife traffickers often launder items: if a country bans the export of a species, smugglers spirit animals into a nearby nation that permits their export. An official of an accommodating government can be bribed to list his country as the origin of items. Says Paul Gertler, a biologist with the federal wildlife permit office: "Inspectors at ports of entry are put in the position where they have to take the word of another government...
...Dallas, campaign workers did manage to line up a fleet of Cadillac limousines, which hauled reporters around Wednesday in a procession that looked disconcertingly like a funeral cortege. But on Thursday morning someone mistook the motorcade's destination for its point of origin, and the Limousines gathered in Fort Worth while journalists and campaign workers waited for them at the Loews Anatole Hotel in Dallas. Jackson aides rounded up two church buses to get the tour under way-90 minutes late. But one bus broke down and limped onto a goat farm near the town of Grand Prairie; reporters...
...Semiotics," says the famous professor of the subject Umberto Eco at the University of Bologna in Italy, "is the study of anything that can be used to lie." And indeed, its origin, according to both academics like Eco, and Harvard specialist Alice Jardine, as well as applicators such as Marshall Blonsky, head of the consulting firm Applied Semiotics, lies in the deconstructionist origins and plans made by the famous author of the book, Mythologies, Roland Barthes. In the mid-fifties, notes Jardine, Barthes put together trends that had begun in European thought as far back as the Stoics...