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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...school in a forest south of Kampala. About 100 students gather weekly under a leafy canopy. Instructors line up herbs on a thin wooden table cut from a single log. Along with the basics of hygiene and anatomy, students learn the identification and uses of local plants. Meanwhile, spiritualists chant, dance and drum to call down spirits and consult them for cures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Calling All Healers | 7/16/2006 | See Source »

...advantage for a half, now found itself down a man when Eddie Pope was given his marching orders by Mr. Larrionda for a second yellow-card foul. The U.S. crowd, some 10,000 of whom filled one corner of the arena, let loose with that classic "Bullshit, Bullshit" chant and began flinging plastic cups, some of them half filled to get greater distance. (And that cost money, by the way. All beer cups here are returnable for a one euro deposit - these are the green World Cup games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Team USA Lives On | 6/18/2006 | See Source »

...hats); there were Elvis impersonators and even some moron in an Uncle Sam outfit. We were rolling. "It's going to be like a snowball, like Lance Armstrong winning the Tour," asserted Christian Kantlehner, 23, from Rutland, Vermont, anticipating a U.S. win. The American fans got a good rhythmic chant going before the game started, (not the usual U-S-A) and sounded absolutely patriotic during the playing of the national anthem. That is to say, they actually sang the words - must have been a well-educated bunch - and produced a massive American flag. It was, in fact, quite moving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Cup: The U.S. Learns How (Not) to Play — the Hard Way | 6/12/2006 | See Source »

...attack heading into the tournament, the offense couldn't do a thing until the 28th minute when Claudio Reyna took a feed from Landon Donovan and clanked one off the right post of Czech goalie Peter Cech, the ball rebounding past a closing DaMarcus Beasley. The Americans began to chant again, annoying their Czech counterparts, who started to whistle. But Rosicky quickly quieted the Yanks with a 35-yard blast - think 450-foot home run - that screamed by U.S. keeper Kasey Keller in the 36th minute. The U.S. made several substitutions at halftime, including Eddie Johnson, who provided a lift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Cup: The U.S. Learns How (Not) to Play — the Hard Way | 6/12/2006 | See Source »

...blanket dance, Lussier unfurled her magenta shawl, and the crowd—some who had known Meat, others who had simply been moved by the scene—followed and circled around her. As the blanket’s pile of cash grew, the four men continued to chant to the deep beat of their drum...

Author: By April H.N. Yee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: At Powwow, Friends Mourn Death of Respected Campus Leader | 5/8/2006 | See Source »

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