Word: research
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite plans for an unprecedented growth of its research programs, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study is quietly slimming down its central administration in the wake of its Oct. 1 merger with Harvard...
...Perhaps inspired by the puffing in the bar behind us, Putnam applies this research, contending that solitude can be more harmful to your health than smoking. He says, "If you smoke and belong to no groups, it's a close call as to whether it would be better for you to stop smoking or join one group...
About a year ago, I obsessed over an article about professors. The piece would have all the stuff you secretly want to know--the cars they drive, the golf clubs in the trunk, the government research that pays for it all. Who are these people, where do they live, where do they go for Thai? I needed to know these things and so did FM readers. The piece would demonstrate true FM investigative reporting. Heck, we'd tail them if we had to, cribbing notes with every turn of the burled walnut steering wheel. Yesiree, stalking professors...
...Prince of Conservatives," as Harvard Magazine recently dubbed him, is almost at home cooking the first full meal of his life. While he is more comfortable teaching a popular class on ancient and medieval political philosophy or conducting research on his new book, entitled Manliness, Mansfield also enjoys being provocative. His hyperbole becomes campus controversy. He calls gay sex "shameful." He speculates that the rise in black students at Harvard has led to grade inflation. He repeatedly warns against the dangers of disrespecting manliness...
...Foster: I liked the 70s, but not because of what was happening globally so much as what was happening in my own life--graduate school, followed by research in Kenya on Swahili storytelling...