Word: projecting
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...River blindness, also called onchocerciasis, is caused by infection from a worm carried by flies, and occurs particularly in West Africa, Guatemala and Mexico. The World Bank, in a project to eradicate the disease in seven African nations within 12 years, has pledged $150 mil lion to spray the flies' breeding waters...
...traditional departments and institutions at Harvard-Radcliffe were founded in and continue to project a white European image and value system. Today, although many of us find worth in participating in mainstream institutions, we typically discover these institutions to be Eurocentric, insensitive to our cultural backgrounds, irrelevant to our interests, unsympathethic to our needs, and void of an understanding of and interest in our histories-in short, historically and currently alien and alienating...
...will fund an ongoing architectural studio exploring the adaptation of solar energy to housing developments on three levels--a single building, a small neighborhood and an entire community. The studio, led by Carl Steinitz, professor of Landscape Architecture, and Adele Santos, professor of Architecture, consists of 30 students. The project selected Tucson. Ariz., as an example of a region with a cooling problems, Boston as one with a winter heating problem, and Atlanta, Ga., as one with unusual humidity...
Morgan's volume forms a monument to Maugham--its size testifies to the complexity of the subject and the exceptionally active life he led. Yet Morgan does not attempt to deify the writer, revealing not the successful, exciting, respected literary profile Maugham wished to project, but the often caustic, seldom genuinely charming man, obsessed with his literary shortcomings--he considered himself a failure for not winning a Nobel Prize--and haunted by his own homosexuality and his fear of public exposure. Born during the reign of Queen Victoria, he clung to Edwardian values of keeping up appearances; he had many...
Officers from the Cambridge Recreational Department supervise this special needs program, which is staffed by eight to ten volunteers, mostly from Eliot House. Wayne W. Meisel '82 and Keith J. O'Hana '82 organized the project, now in its fifth week...