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After graduating from the University of Berlin in 1926, Mayr traveled to New Guinea, where he studied birds. He continued his research when he became a professor at Harvard University...
...something interesting, unique and less than half a mile away, consider attending a discussion by Tim Flannery today at the Harvard Coop. Flannery talks about his "Throwim Way Leg: Tree Kangaroos, Possums and Penis Gourds: On the Track of Unknown Wild Animals in Wildest New Guinea." 1400 Mass Ave. 499-2000. 7 p.m. FREE...
Third, it was unfortunately true that research ethics in those days allowed, even encouraged, investigators to use unfortunate members of society as guinea pigs. A great deal of medical research was done on the inmates of penitentiaries. Sometimes, prisoners had their sentences reduced as reward...
...ground. When she hesitated, a boy in the rebel army slashed her neck with a machete. When she fell, a soldier put her wrist on a rock and cut off her hand. "They left me there," she told interviewers. "I walked 11 days to Forekonia [on the Guinea border], and I had to bury my own hand." The amputations are a common form of terror. Young rebels blithely ask victims if they want "long sleeves or short sleeves"--amputation at the wrists or elbows...
...magazine, he was so close to the front lines that four Iraqi Republican Guards surrendered to him. Last week when fighting heated up in Sierra Leone, Barnes didn't hesitate. He jetted from New York City to Paris on Tuesday, then traveled through the Ivory Coast and Mali to Guinea, where he caught a Nigerian helicopter into Freetown on Saturday morning. Battle-hardened though he is, Barnes found the scene harrowing. "The situation is totally chaotic," he says. "Much of the city is under the control of 15- and 16-year-old kids who will shoot at anything." Barnes filed...