Word: samoan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...devoid of violence, guilt and anger. Her portrait of free-loving primitives shocked contemporaries and inspired generations of college students--especially during the 1960s sexual revolution. But it may have been too good to be true. While few question Mead's brilliance or integrity, subsequent research showed that Samoan society is no more or less uptight than any other. It seems Mead accepted as fact tribal gossip embellished by adolescent Samoan girls happy to tell the visiting scientist what she wanted to hear...
...night was brought to a climax with the presentation of the Samoan slap dance. Scantily clad MIT engineering students with oiled up bodies slapped themselves in an impressive performance. Samoan slap dancing creates the syncopated rhythm of tap dancing but with the use of one's hands and body instead of one's feet and the floor. It also has the energy and power of stepping. When asked if it was painful to do, Eric Beven, one of the Samoan slap dancers, replied, "Well, I got some bruises. You get so energized doing it. It feels great when...
...then that she turned to a Samoan-American boy in her sixth-grade class, a slender, sensitive, artistic youth who looked and acted older than his years. He was sexually mature, yet someone she could mold. The two began visiting museums and exchanging poetry, and by June 1996 they were having sex. "She found the man of her dreams," says her lawyer, David Gehrke...
...that only people like her can prevent the loss of centuries of knowledge. If he can carry Salome's knowledge to the developed world in the form of plants whose myriad chemical compounds might help combat incurable diseases--notably cancer, AIDS and Alzheimer's--the impetus to save the Samoan rain forest, and all forests, will be that much stronger...
...foundation has since provided money for the Western Samoan village of Tafua to preserve its 20,000-acre rain forest. It helped persuade Congress to authorize the National Park of American Samoa--about 10,000 acres of forest and 420 acres of coral reefs in the neighboring archipelago. And it has helped villages build schools, medical clinics and cisterns to catch rainfall, the main source of drinking water...