Word: taro
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...castaways elect Thorkild chief and play at being survivors, pairing off in various combinations and permutations, cultivating taro and learning how to make stone axes...
...problem starts with the medical schools. Training emphasizes research rather than clinical practice. Schools are overcrowded, curriculums out of date, and students discontented to the point of periodic open rebellion. Dr. Taro Takemi, the outspoken president of the Japan Medical Association, damns the schools vehemently: "Today," he says, "they provide neither decent research nor decent clinical training...
...Dowell Colony, a sylvan artists' preserve in Peterborough, N.H. She, Foumiko Kometani, was a painter from Japan. He, Josh Greenfeld, was a Jewish writer from Greenwich Village. As newlyweds, they began family life simply, with a cat named Brodsky. In 1964 a son, Karl Taro, was born. Two years later Foumiko gave birth to another child, a placid, ethereally beautiful boy whom they named Noah Jiro...
Jungle Habitat. Making contact with the Tasaday, the government agents soon determined that the tribe had been isolated for at least 700 years and perhaps for 2,000, and had no knowledge of agriculture. The Tasaday are unfamiliar with rice, taro, salt and sugar, have never eaten corn and, according to authorities, may be "the only people in the world today who do not know or use tobacco...