Word: africa
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...Raven looks to the wide world to build other countries' capacities for sustainable development. Two areas that he regards as especially critical are Madagascar and the northern Andes. Madagascar has half as many plants as all tropical Africa (about 11,000), and the great majority are found nowhere else. The Missouri Garden has been active there since the early 1970s, helping train and support the country in evaluating and protecting threatened areas. In the northern Andes, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru are home to at least one-fifth of the world's biodiversity, including perhaps 60,000 species of plants, endangered...
...rear of the stage, a strange mix of various percussion instruments grew and changed throughout the night. In the hands of Jeffrey Haynes, everything from a steel pan to congas added tastes of Africa and the Caribbean at will, and he masterfully integrated his beats with sometimes-jazz, sometimes-folk, sometimes-blues tones around him. Even with a drummer and percussionist playing simultaneously, the sounds were never muddled and Wilson's voice was never muscled into the background...
...rear of the stage, a strange mix of various percussion instruments grew and changed throughout the night. In the hands of Jeffrey Haynes, everything from a steel pan to congas added tastes of Africa and the Caribbean at will, and he masterfully integrated his beats with sometimes-jazz, sometimes-folk, sometimes-blues tones around him. Even with a drummer and percussionist playing simultaneously, the sounds were never muddled and Wilson's voice was never muscled into the background...
...This is an out-of-area operation," he said, referring to the NATO alliance. "Recently, there was a lot of momentum to expand out-of-area to include the Middle East and Africa. I think that after this, that will be pulled back...
...decades ago, it was considered a taboo Down Under to admit to convict ancestry, and early census records were destroyed by politicians and others who did not want their origins revealed. But lately it has become fashionable to be a first-fleet Australian. Likewise, in the new South Africa, nonwhite ancestry for an Afrikaner is not only politically correct but socially advantageous. Former President Frederik Willem de Klerk, once a defender of apartheid, now admits to a Bengali-slave forebear. In the U.S., blacks and whites are cooperating in joint genealogy searches. Says Colorado land appraiser James Rogers, a Caucasian...