Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flip through issue after issue of Vogue magazine in search of fashions by Christian Dior, but James H. Lubowitz would probably have already beaten them to the magazine stacks--and he was doing research for his thesis. Most undergraduate don't circle the globe for credit, but Janet W. Rich and Michael P. Adams wound up doing their thesis research in Australia and Peru respectively. The variety of senior theses is always astounding--here is a lively sampling of some of this year's crop that were researched far away from Harvard or dealt with unusual topics...
...Janet W. Rich started her thesis research by exploring the breast-feeding and reproductive habits of primates in Kenya to examine the connection between breast-feeding and the return of ovulation in women. She ended up dropping the primate angle and spent two-and-a-half months on a small island off the northern coast of Australia studying breast-feeding in an aborigine tribe. The resulting thesis for the Anthropology Department proved that given certain breast-feeding habits, women can delay the return to ovulation by 14 to 15 months...
...Rich's study of the Yolngu tribe in the Northern territory exposed her to a type of research and field work that helped convince her to go into the Peace Corps in Niger next year. While studying the area, Rich was witness to a few traditional ceremonies and was taken hunting once, in addition to eating live Mangrove worms once...
...here in September, and the Corporation wants to make sure that the same resources and opportunities will be available five 10, or even 20 years from now. To manage Harvard's investments the Corporation founded the Harvard Management Company 10 years ago and through it keeps the University rich. (See accompanying article...
...helping her to discover her own opinions. "He didn't shape my political views, but he helped me voice them," she says. But others are not so sure. "I sometimes think it wasn't fair for Larry to do what he did, us being naive freshmen," says Rich. "He didn't force his ideas on us, but he argued very persuasively," Kathy, who was often active in COCA, has perhaps the bluntest assessment: "I know some time the next year I looked back on it and wondered how I got involved in all that. It was sort of like being...