Word: continentality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The theory has flaws, though. One is the idea that prehistoric people could have populated an entire continent in a mere 500 years, the span between the time of the presumed land migration and the time by which Clovis spearpoints had been deposited throughout North America. Even more problematic are...
THE BOTTOM LINE: Australia's best-known and best-selling novelist fires up the interior of the continent as the crucible for a tale of loss and regeneration.
Even as fighting eased in Srebrenica under a cease-fire agreement brokered in Sarajevo late Saturday night, painful memories were being evoked half a continent away, in Poland, where preparations to mark the 50th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising were under way. In 1943, 60,000 Jewish survivors of...
More direct aid, the cancellation of past debts, and the creation of "development banks"--institutions which provide low-interest loans to developing nations--would greatly accelerate the development and stabilization of the continent, Diallo said.
The UNICEF official said that by "focusing attention on recovery rather than disaster," Africa would be able to impart to the "global village" that the continent is committed to progress.