Word: fieldwork
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first class meeting of the biology seminar Conservation and Biodiversity, a course with a significant (often cold and wet) fieldwork component, the instructors have one firm guideline for the students: no whining...
...Harvard she also married Anthony Willett, co-author of Shadow over Shangri-La, her recently published memoir, whom she had first met in Nepal while he was doing fieldwork as a specialist in international rural development. A graduate of Cambridge University, at her encouragement Willett enrolled in Harvard's M.P.A. program while she was attending the Kennedy School. In 1988-89, they lived together as resident tutors in Currier House...
...past five years, Beckwith and Fisher have been concentrating on sacred rites of passage that mark major life changes: birth, puberty, courtship, healing and death. This fieldwork will continue for one more year; the photographers are currently in the field filming the Swazi reed dance in Swaziland, Ndebele marriages in South Africa and Tuareg seasonal ceremonies in the Sahara. Says Beckwith: "These ceremonies are some of the most powerful events in these tribes. They promote healing and provide a powerful new sense of identity. Some of the rituals we've photographed no longer exist. And many of those that...
...temperature soared to 120 degrees F almost every day, and the fossils were hundreds of feet up, poking out of the dusty face of a sandstone cliff. "It was," says Paul Sereno of the University of Chicago, who led the joint U.S.-Moroccan expedition, "the most brutal fieldwork I've ever done." Worse yet, the team wasn't finding much--lots of moderately interesting bits and pieces but nothing even close to a major discovery...
Here they are, in 12 choice cuts of The Road to Ensenada (MCA). Listen for the testimony and you may be persuaded that the whole marriage was fieldwork, research under fire for an album of wily recrimination. In the acerbic Christmas Morning the singer describes three genial lies--"Have a great day," "Peace and goodwill to men" and a bride's vow to take her man for better or worse--and plaintively asks, "But hey, what did you mean by that?/ Perhaps I'm the tool you take me for,/ Not anything more." In the faux-perky, hit-bound...