Word: hispaniola
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...faster trials. Its economy boomed throughout the 1990s and, after a brief hiccup in 2003, clocked a 2006 GDP real growth rate of 10.7 percent. But to an estimated 800,000 Haitians currently living in the Dominican Republic, the country with which their homeland shares the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, is anything but an exemplar of development and democracy...
Though the course isn’t offered this year, the course instructor, Professor of Biology Brian D. Farrell, will head for Hispaniola to begin cataloging species on the Caribbean island and searching for new ones. And starting next spring he plans to bring Harvard students with...
Farrell said Hispaniola, the island composed of the Dominican Republic and Haiti, is a particularly interesting place for research because of its age and isolation...