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...find food for myself. I was very hungry. I met two boys, and together we came upon a mass grave of 30 bodies. The Khmer Rouge soldiers found me. I told them that I had gone for firewood. But they punished me. They bound my hands to a bamboo stick behind my back. I was tied up without food for several days...
...smoothly to the dry waterholes, and there was a new water that he had never known of... Then they were over the first hills and the wildebeests were trailing up them, and then they were over the mountains with sudden depths of green-rising forest and the solid bamboo slopes, and then the heavy forest again sculptured into peaks and hollows until they crossed and hills sloped down and then another plain, hot now, and purple brown, bumpy with heat and Compie looking back to see how he was riding. Then there were other mountains dark ahead. --Hemingway. "The Snows...
...five out of 27" statistic mentioned above will only get worse unless an effort is made to generate an increasing number of scholars in areas on the other side of the iron and bamboo curtains, and south of the Rio Grande. Failing to introduce these unfamiliar fields at an early stage of a student's education will only serve to decrease his interest. And in any case, tutors generally describe the topics less familiar to sophomores as the most intellectually stimulating...
Just arrived at Kennedy. The usual airline food-wilting bamboo shoots -and the usual pack of media jackals at the airport asking the usual dumb questions. What is it really like being a giant panda? Is it true that I've come all the way from London to have an interpanda relationship with what's-her-name at the National Zoo in Washington? Is it true that pandas know little about foreplay...
...that, when the two met in the Bamboo Room of Tokyo's stone walled Imperial Palace, Hirohito graciously told the Pope, "Japan a long time ago was benefited a great deal by the Catholic missionaries, who brought their culture to this country." There are still many missionaries. John Paul had a tearful meeting with one, an 87-year-old Franciscan and fellow Pole named Zeno Zebrowski, who is famed for creating at least 30 of what are called "ant towns," communities for the poor based on selfhelp...