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...Bernhard Meier, a quest through Madagascar's leech-infested rain forests ended with blood poisoning, malaria, an injured knee -- and glorious success. A primatologist at Ruhr University in Bochum, West Germany, Meier had been tracking the hairy-eared dwarf lemur, the world's second smallest primate, which scientists had never seen alive. Last week he revealed that he had captured and photographed one of the mouse-size creatures...
...Generally speaking, any improvement we canmake is good," said Pilbeam. "Although therealities of a research-oriented university likeHarvard renders unfeasible certain aspects of thestudy, even the smallest improvement we can makeis beneficial...
...organization made up of legal employers (public and private) and law school representatives requires law firms to hold offers open until December 15 so that students will have ample opportunity to interview in the fall and make an informed decision. In addition, Harvard Law School requires all but the smallest firms using the facilities of the Office of Career Services to allow a student to hold open one offer from a private firm until April 15 if she or he is searching for a job in the public sector...
...Baltic republics, secessionist passion is inversely proportional to the percentage of ethnic Russians living there. Lithuania has the smallest Russian population; hence Gorbachev received the region's most emotional dose of separatism. Nonetheless, there was something exhilarating about seeing the leader of the Soviet Union debating citizens in the streets. Thomas Jefferson could not have asked for a better illustration of democracy in action, though Gorbachev may have wished for an experience a shade less vivid...
This year, however, I noticed a difference. People seemed to be owning up to their lives. They uttered ambivalences. "Not bad." "So-so." "Uneventful." Even "Boring." What is this? Do the '90s mark the start of a new era in which compulsory cynicism infects even the smallest of small talk, even at hardyhar-Harvard...