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Hunting
with Fire |
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Behavioral ecologists
Rebecca and Doug Bird are looking for the basic clues to what it
means to be human. To do that, the anthropologists study the
rudiments of complex social arrangements and interactions, such as
the division between men's and women's work, by living with the
Mardu of Australia's Western Desert. |
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Exceeding
Expectations |
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Cultural pressures and
societal expectations tell us how and when we're "old." But Margaret
Cruikshank, author of Learning to be Old, and Center on Aging
Director Len Kaye take exception to the portrayals of aging that are
all around us. They argue that adults need to age on their own terms
rather than by society's definitions. |
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Rockefeller's
Views |
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Fifteen years ago,
Acadia National Park set out to rehabilitate its historic carriage
roads that were designed and built by John D. Rockefeller Jr.
Helping in that restoration effort every year since then have been
some of the best aspiring foresters in the Northeast--UMaine
students enrolled in forestry camp. |
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Culture
Shock |
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U.S. presidential elections aren't purely politics. American culture
also plays a role. A number of "new" cultural realities--from
post-9/11 fear to hanging chads that shattered our blind faith in
voting technology--are punctuating election 2004, giving voters even
more to think about when they go to the polls. |
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Old-Growth
Forests Under the Sea |
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UMaine biologists Les
Watling and Anne Simpson search for deep-water corals in hopes of
unlocking their secrets. In recent years, researchers have found
that corals are far more abundant in deep northern seas than anyone
had expected. Now, the race is on to save them. |
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Goals |
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Black Bear hockey coach Tim Whitehead, who has led UMaine to two
Frozen Fours in three years, has found the key to effective teaching
in the classroom and the locker room. |
