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Before making a speech in Japan, he said, he had been warned about discrimination. But knowing that the Japanese think whoever bows longest is most polite, he kept bowing his head whenever he saw the audience were raising theirs. This stretched on for so long that finally everyone was laughing...
The Wild East. Siberia stayed underpopulated so long because newcomers recoiled from the first experience of its immensity and climate: January temperatures plummet to 100° below, while August temperatures soar to 120° above. Nature shaped the land with a grim hand. In prehistoric times, Siberia was a vast...
A delegation of U.N. officers went to see President Moise Tshombe, who between dawn and breakfast suddenly found himself deprived of most of his army's officer corps. Only a fortnight ago, Tshombe vowed to fight "unto death" any U.N. interference in his province. After listening to the delegation...
If the constitution of Honduras permitted, Villeda Morales, 52, could probably keep the workers with him for the rest of his natural life. Once the nation's leading pediatrician, Villeda in his 3½ years as President has forged an independent democracy that neither bows to nor automatically defies...
With Lehrman's encouragement, Josh studied the ring dove, a small, brownish bird found only under domestication. A point of note about the male ring dove is that he inflates his esophagus (gullet) and bows when making his cooing sound before target females. Experts on animal behavior have assumed...