BACK TO THE FEATURE INDEX It's amazing where science has brought me. I don't mean to the moon or to the bottom of the ocean. But it did bring me to Mount Everest, to a forest of clouds, and to a place I never thought it could lead me--development. When I was growing up in Canada, I dreamed of working in Africa as a doctor. This aspiration had nothing to do with an interest in medicine. I just tho...
BACK TO THE FEATURE INDEX Brenda Cranney (see picture at left) stumbled, shivered, shied, and scratched her way through the first portion of her inaugural experience in development. But despite the cold, the lack of privacy, the lice, and the fleabites that were initially difficult to cope with, the sociologist says that living and working in India changed her forever. While completing her Ph.D.,...
BACK TO THE FEATURE INDEX ?I still haven?t decided what I want to be when I grow up,? says Wardie Leppan with a chuckle. Leppan hardly seems the type to be suffering from lack of direction. The lanky 50-year-old has a rather spacious office at the International Development Research Centre?s (IDRC?s) head office in Ottawa. He has already spent 2 decades working in development and natural resources...
