Volume XI Number 1 - Fall 1985WORD GAMES
Linguist Barbara Partee studies language to understand the structure of
the human mind.
VEILED MEANINGS
Islam brings back the veil - a return to fundamentalism or a sign of women's
growing independence.
MAIL-ORDER MAYHEM
A nationally ranked karate champion takes aim against mail-order ninja weapons
that are being used by children.
THE YIDDUSH REVIVAL
Mazel tov to Hannah Kliger, who has brought an ancient language back to
the moderm curriculum.
PANANMA
Zoology students learn firsthand about the animals of the tropics and the
complex ecology of Barro Colorado Islands.
COSTA RICA
A botanist in Costa rica discusses the razing of the rain forest and what
it means for the fragile ecosystem.
MARTIAN MYSTERIES
Robert Huguenin is looking at dust from the stars to unravel some of the
mysteries of Mars.
HOUSEHOLD HAZARDS
Cleve Williams surveys how Bay Staters dispose of their household toxins,
and the results are not reassuring.
BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO
A new television series hepls couples identify issues involved in divorce,
make a decision, and live with the results.
Volume X, Number 4 - June 1985SAY IT AIN'T SO, JOE
Ronald Story, baseball scholar and fan, talks about America's love affair
with the game.
BETWEEN TWO CULTURES
Southeast Asian students discover the joys and sorrows of adjusting to American
life.
PASSIVE ACCOMPLICES
David Wyman's book, The Abandonment of the Jews, indicts US leader who failed
to take action against the Holocaust.
VISIONS AND REVISIONS
Daniel Anderson is studying how children preceive the complicated video
shorthand of television.
THE REGREENING OF NAGASAKI
Edward Klekowski is finding mutations in plants directly descended from
those which grew at the bomb site.
NURSES BOOST NURSING
New mothers are learning the benefits of breast-feeding in a clinic run
by students from the nursing department.
Volume X Number 3 - February 1985KICKING THE HEROINE HABIT
Heroine into hero - Lee Edwards finds women in fiction are changing.
HIGH-TECH GOES TECHNICOLOR
DIAL is turning scientific data into a rainbow of colors for easier interpretation
and artisitic pleasure.
GENETIC ENGINEERING
Scientists are controlling some life-threatening diseases by genetic engineering
techniques, but critics feel the risk is too high.
THE PRIME OF MISS PEARL PRIMUS
After decades of dancing and teaching, Pearl Primus is still in her prime.
ANTINUKE FILM ANTICS
Liane Brandon is producing a film which uses testimonials, song, and dance
to show people what they can do to stop nuclear war.
CALL OF THE WILD
Graduate students are following the habits of wildlife with the help of
radio telemetry.
STREET LETHAL
James Wright and others at SADRI are studying the health care needs of the
homeless.
MYSTERIES OF THE MUMMY
Anthropologists are unwrapping the secrets of ancient cultures by examining
the bones of mummies.
Volume X Number 2 - December 1984THE LIFE & TIMES OF FLORA LEWIS
In her commencement address last spring, New York Times columnist Flora
Lewis lambasted the current regimes in both Washington and Moscow.
IN SEARCH OF THE PERFECT APPLE
The wormy apple may be a thing of the past, if Ron Prokopy and the Integrated
Pest Management team perfect their biological control system.
TOYING WITH REALITY
George Forman is studying how chilfren learn from, and play with, the new
high-tech toys.
SALEM REPOSSESSED
Stephen Nissenbaum is the historical adviser on the set of a PBS film starring
Vanessa Redgrave.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Wendy Lehnert is teaching computers to process natural language, which is
a little like teaching a three-year-old to read Proust.
FASHIONABLE CAUSES
Barbara Schreier is studying how the clothing of the fifties reflected the
now-famous "feminine mystique" of that period.
WALKING FOR THE HEALTH OF IT
Robert Sweetgall will walk 11,600 miles this year and Frank Katch is testing
him to see how walking rates as a fitness regime.
THE IMPOSTER SYNDROME
Valerie Young offers workshops for women who feel that they are imposters
in their careers.
Volume IX Number 4 - March-April 1984Chinese journalists study our ways
New discoveries about the birth of stars
Massachussetts mobilizes to monitor acid rain
Dramatic new treatment for paralysis
Pricking the Orwell bubble
The new censorship laws
A different approach to the teaching of reading and writing
An author shares his secrets
Phi Beta Kappa poem
An update on the trade-union movement
Volume IX Number 3 - January-February 1984Toward better museums
Voyages of discovery aboard the R/V Regina Maris
Chines-English dictionary a three-way partnership
James Baldwin
Communal societies past and present
Update on the greenhouse effect
Minerals may hold key to nuclear waste disposal
System 6 for hardwood
Gospel goes to college
Saturday morning polka
New directions in health care
Polymers to change your life
Volume
IX Number 2 - November-December 1983Anthropolgists' film refutes creationist dogmas
Historian chosen to edit prestigious journal of the sea
The definitive New England herpetology book
Wily strategies to combat nematode nemesis
The Sturgeon General
Do fat babies become fat adults?
Sculptor and graphics artist Leomard Baskin is first Institute Distinguished Fellow
Better chow for the hounds
A court of last resort for confounded consumers
Research on why the victim blames the victim
A talk with an Oriental rug expert
Polish language instruction
Putting high school math onto the computer
Rossi on crime in America
The education of graphic designers of the future
Field school at W.E.B. Du Bois homestead Few people know that the great thinker and philosopher Du Bois was born into a black community which had lived in the Berkshires since colonial times. Umass anthropologists are combing the historic site for information about the life of that special community.
Lizzie Borden's 40 whacks Violent and sensational Americana is the basis for an unusual course in historical scholarship.
Honors for the Five College dancers
Colorado-based supercomputer does our number crunching
Thoughts on our metamorphosis
Chancellor to advise Gov. Dukakis on mature industry
The subtext of women's magazines. A professor of comparative literature looks for meaning amid recipes and beauty aids
Critical choices for Brattleboro's future
Custom dune buggy zooms and floats
A walking tour for campus habitues and visitors there is venerable arboreal life in the groves of academe
Trash recycled into products and student jobs.
New Herter Gallery director
Ice cream testing is Prof. Potte's sideline
A report from the frontiers of science
Volume IX Number 1 - September-October 1983The education of graphic designers of the future
Field school at W.E.B. Du Bois homestead. Few people know that the great thinker and philosopher Du Bois was born into a black community which had lived in the Berkshires since colonial times. UMass anthropologists are combing the historic site for information about the life of that special community.
Lizzie Borden's 40 whacks Violent and sensational Americana is the basis for an unusual course in historical scholarship.
Honors for the Five College dancers
Colorado-based supercomputer does our number crunching
Thoughts on our metamorphosis
Chancellor to advise Gov. Dukakis on mature industry
The subtext of women's magazines A professor of comparative literature looks for meaning amid recipes and beauty aids
Critical choices for Brattleboro's future
Custom dune buggy zooms and floats
A walking tour for campus habitues and visitors there is venerable arboreal life in the groves of academe
Trash recycled into products and student jobs.
New Herter Gallery director
Ice cream testing is Prof. Potte's sideline
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