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It was one of the biggest scandals in New York University history. Professor John Buettner-Janusch, chair of the Anthropology Department, was convicted of manufacturing LSD and Quaaludes in his campus laboratory. He claimed the drugs were for an animal behavior experiment, but the jury found otherwise. B-J, as he was known, served two years in prison before being paroled, emerging to find his life and career in shambles. Four years later, he sought revenge by trying to kill the sentencing judge and others with poisoned Valentine's Day chocolates. After pleading guilty to attempted murder, he w… (mais)
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
I must warn the reader that facts are not hard, clear, and self-evident. They are not hard little objects that yield obvious conclusions and theories when a sufficient number are gathered, counted, sorted, and listed. Facts are elusive, and they are subject to much interpretation. Indeed, facts themselves are often the products of interpretations . . . Facts do not speak for themselves -- ever.
-- John Buettner-Janusch, Origins of Man
Who is it that can tell me who I am?
-- William Shakespeare, King Lear
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
For the lemurs of Madagascar And those who study them
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
"I should say this," federal judge Joseph Lord said solemnly at the sentencing of former anthropology professor John Buettner-Janusch at the end of his 1987 trial. (Introduction)
The son of a successful architect, Johannes Buettner-Janusch was born in Chicago in the Roaring Twenties, a decade that roared more loudly in that city than anywhere else.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Much of this work surely wouldn't be taking place today if not for John Buettner-Janusch, the mad professor who put Madagascar and its prosimian creatures on the world's scientific and conservationist radar.
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It was one of the biggest scandals in New York University history. Professor John Buettner-Janusch, chair of the Anthropology Department, was convicted of manufacturing LSD and Quaaludes in his campus laboratory. He claimed the drugs were for an animal behavior experiment, but the jury found otherwise. B-J, as he was known, served two years in prison before being paroled, emerging to find his life and career in shambles. Four years later, he sought revenge by trying to kill the sentencing judge and others with poisoned Valentine's Day chocolates. After pleading guilty to attempted murder, he w
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