Word: preservationism
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A native of Boston. Winthrop his combined a successful business career with a strong interest in charitable causes, ranging from schools to wildlife preservation. A board member of several hospitals and schools near his Old Westbury, Long Island, home. Winthrop is a member of the Harvard Medical School's Overseers...
Unlike their counterparts in exotic parts of the world, contrast archaeologists stay on their home turf to study and recorder sites that will be hurt or destroyed by development projects. They usually work just ahead of the backhoes. Since the mid-1970s, when preservation legislation required archaeology on sites funded...
The point is that the study of settlement in the New World, particularly New England, should not be judged like a business. The present administration in Washington is not overly concerned with preservation, conservation, or cultural resource management. If academia is unwilling to serve as the repositories for our history...
Much of the blame for the present impasse falls on the Arabs. Arafat has known for months that he could make progress toward negotiations only if he forged an agreement with Hussein on a joint diplomatic strategy. Arab moderates have advised Arafat that, given the pressures imposed by the rapid...
The Chronicle of Higher Education (2/16/83) recently printed an editorial by William J. Rewak, S.J., the president of the University of Santa Clara, speaking on the issue of nuclear arms and the role of the research university. "We should." argues Father Rewak, "engage in a university-wide exploration of the...