Word: archipelagoes
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...Dismissed as passé, he endured the indignity of seeing his talk show canceled because of low ratings. But the success of the mini-series, for which the Nobel winner wrote the screenplay and appeared on billboards, may signal a new era of hipness for him. Do we hear Gulag Archipelago for sweeps...
...Black Sea Canal. But Judt also gives the intellectuals credit when they did get it right. He considers Dec. 28, 1973, to be "a symbolic moment" when "post-war Europe's self-understanding turned." That was the date when Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's exposé of communist repression, The Gulag Archipelago, was published. Once that shocking indictment of the Soviet system had worked its way into the general consciousness of Europe, Judt suggests, the West reached a consensus that there is "no way to justify public policies or actions that cause real suffering today in the name of speculative benefits tomorrow...
...Attempts to identify the bombers by circulating an estimated 300,000 photos of their severed but still recognizable heads have also drawn a blank. Police say they plan to distribute another 300,000 copies across the archipelago. Last week, they also offered a hundred million rupiah reward?about $10,000?for anyone who can identify one of the bombers. The police have offered up to 1 billion rupiah, or $100,000, for help that leads to the capture of the two Malaysian terrorist kingpins believed to be behind the attacks, Azahari Husin and Noordin Top?an amount that shows...
...tooth-shaped, designs across a red surface, is the signature of the people - believed to be ancestors of today's Polynesians - who began moving east of the Solomon Islands about 3,200 years ago. Their pottery, found in fragments at numerous occupation sites scattered from New Guinea's Bismarck Archipelago in the west, to Samoa in the east, is like a trail of breadcrumbs across the Pacific, left by these colonizing explorers as they moved with their retinue of plants and animals through the islands. Though evidence of its country's founding culture has been discovered in Vanuatu before...
...past few decades, argument has focused on whether the Lapita people originated among Neolithic farmers of Taiwan before moving through Melanesia and into Polynesia, or whether the Lapita culture was indigenous to the Bismarck Archipelago. In Auckland, Matisoo-Smith's lab has begun the intricate task of following that trail by trying to extract dna from the bones. Only one other study of ancient dna, collected from a range of younger sites, has ever been done in the region, and it was undertaken, Matisoo-Smith says, when less rigorous protocols produced less reliable results. While her results are still incomplete...