Word: preservationism
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EVERYONE KNEW THAT CHICO MENDES WAS A marked man -- long before the leader of the Amazon rubber tappers and champion of rain-forest preservation was killed in 1988. Little was done to protect him from hostile ranchers bent on stripping the forests. When his assassins, Darci Alves Pereira and his...
"I think some people's concept of diversity is assimilation and yes, a student center would prevent that," he says. It would be a preservation of cultures."
We have a Harvard Square Defense Fund, which purports to work for the preservation of "old-time Cambridge." Presumably, this includes rolling back the clock to a time before the Square was the polluted Macca of mall-rats and skinheads. Such goals are admirable.
Around the editors' table, you can almost hear the jaws drop. At 50, Roddick may be Britain's best-known female entrepreneur --famed for having transformed herself from a penniless hippie to one of the five richest women in England -- but she still takes some getting used to. The darling...
The Salt Center for Documentary Field Studies, an organization dedicated to the research and preservation of Maine culture, hosts a project focusing on women's lives in the tiny community of South Berwick, Maine. One of these women is Freida Hunter-owner, manager and driving force behind one of South...