Word: hamsters
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Harvard Business Review: "There isn't any forgiveness yet of a man who doesn't really give his all." So today's working stiff really enjoys no more meaningful options than did his father, the pathetic guy in the gray flannel suit who was pilloried as a professional hamster and an emotional cripple. You're still either a master of the universe or a wimp. It is the cognitive dissonance between the desire for change and the absence of ways to achieve it that has reduced most men who even think about the subject to tapioca...
Peter and Lily are cool about sex, money and raising their nine-year-old son Charles. He can have a hamster only if, says his father, "you'll eat it when you get tired of it." Peter loves Lily but decides he cannot live at home. He rents a house 10 miles away so that "I won't have to feel bad around here...
...people get that once-in-a-lifetime chance to study the sex life of the Siberian dwarf hamster; fewer still would deem it a privilege to pay a bundle for the opportunity. Yet that was the choice of Laura Farnsworth, an IBM marketing representative from Dallas, who shelled out $2,400 plus air fare last summer to spend three weeks trudging from dusk till dawn in the harsh steppes of Soviet Asia. Supervised by biologist Katherine Wynne-Edwards, Farnsworth, along with other similarly hardy amateurs, not only saw a remote part of the Soviet Union but also had the satisfaction...
...sponsor of the hamster hunt was Earthwatch, a nonprofit organization conceived in the early 1970s by Brian Rosborough, a lawyer. Since scientists always need more manpower for their studies and never have enough money, Rosborough reasoned that they would welcome paying "Earth patriots" eager to spend a week or two on scholarly expeditions in remote places. At first Earthwatch concentrated on the physical sciences, such as the study of volcanoes and eclipses, but as public interest grew in things natural, the organization acquired a strong environmental flavor. This year more than 3,000 EarthCorps volunteers will head...