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...diminutive man from the Kalam people of the Kaironk valley, Majnep is a living bridge between the subsistence life of a remote part of New Guinea's highlands and the world of science. In recent years, he has served as a collaborator on several scientific monographs published by Oxford University Press. Hired as an adolescent in 1959 to translate for New Zealand ornithologist Ralph Bulmer, Majnep soon found himself being interviewed for his familiarity with the feeding and breeding habits of birds that Bulmer was studying in the region...
Although this year's violence has been widespread, involving similar incidents in Oxford, Cardiff and Birmingham, the Times of London concluded that the worst was over. All would be well when the weather changed, an editorial predicted, because "the best policeman of all is rain...
...passion for the little winged creatures took her to Yale, Harvard, Oxford and Princeton. And now, the 35-year-old biologist has returned to Cambridge, not only as Harvard's first-ever Hessell Professor of Biology's, but also as the Museum of Comparative Biology's curator of Lepidoptera...
...passion for the little winged creatures took her to Yale, Harvard, Oxford and Princeton. And now, the 35-year-old biologist has returned to Cambridge, not only as Harvard's first-ever Hessell Professor of Biology, but also as the Museum of Comparative Biology's curator of Lepidoptera...
...Sovereign Soviet Republics." The power to govern will flow out from the central offices in Moscow to the parliaments of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, and especially to the largest of all, Yeltsin's Russia. "Gorbachev is back in power," says Alex Pravda, a Soviet expert at St. Antony's College, Oxford University, "but the presidential office is shrinking under his feet...