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...bring? To find out, all you have to do is turn on a computer or TV. You'll quickly learn that next year we're going to eat fried chicken and whoopie pies, view televised sports in 3-D, witness six to eight hurricanes in the Atlantic, watch as Ruth Bader Ginsburg retires from the Supreme Court and tune in to Sarah Palin's new talk show...
...first instance of anthropologists' involvement with war efforts. Before the First World War, the field techniques of the discipline were used by the British to administer and subdue the different cultural groups at the edges of its empire. Later, in World War II, anthropologist Ruth Benedict played a key role in President Franklin Roosevelt's decision to allow the Japanese Emperor's reign to continue as part of Japan's surrender to the U.S. According to Price, who has written a book on the use of anthropology during World War II, the majority of American anthropologists were actively involved...
...Ruth Meaders, AUSTIN, TEXAS...
...agencies argue their efforts give them insights that can benefit their conventional customers. "We do a lot of learning this way," says Barnett of Brooklyn Brothers. "It gives us a greater understanding of clients' businesses." Another potential payoff, says Ruth Mortimer, associate editor at Marketing Week, is that collaboration can inspire greater creativity and risk-taking. For the launch of Relentless, Erasmus created a 30-minute surfing documentary to position the brand for the extreme-sports set. "It's a more sophisticated type of advertising than we're used to seeing with Coke," Mortimer says...
Ndesandjo had shunned the limelight until now. He is one of two children born to Barack Obama Sr. and his third wife, an American teacher named Ruth Nidesand, whom Obama Sr. met while the two were students at Harvard. Tall and slim like the President, Ndesandjo had avoided any association with the Obama name. For most of his life, he used only his stepfather's Tanzanian surname, Ndesandjo, but he has now added Okoth, a word from the language of his father's Kenyan tribe, the Luo, as well as his original surname, Obama. (See Barack Obama's family tree...