Word: continentality
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Maathai, the first woman in Kenya to earn a Ph.D. (in anatomy) and to become a professor at the University of Nairobi, has at times crossed swords with the Kenyan government for questioning aspects of modernization. In 1989 she was thrown out of her state-owned offices when she opposed...
Belize, formerly British Honduras, enjoys the distinction of being the most obscure country in Latin America. It is tiny: a nibble between the borders of Mexico to the north, Honduras to the south and Guatemala to the west. In the 16th and 17th centuries it was the haunt of Spanish...
Donkeys laden with firewood shambled about aimlessly among the crowd in the shabby central square in Mamuras, 19 mi. north of the Albanian capital of Tirana. The townsfolk's timeless talk about rain, marriages and hardship had given way to the excitement of an epochal event: the country's first...
Promising to replace Traore's "bloodthirsty and corrupt regime" with multiparty democracy, the coup leaders quickly formed a 17-man National Reconciliation Council headed by Lieut. Colonel Amadou Toumani Toure, 43, commander of the parachute forces. The council has announced plans to form a 25-member interim administration, which will...
The skirmishes are instructive examples of the resistance that American pop culture meets from intellectuals in some of the countries where it is consumed most avidly by mass audiences, but in the overall scheme of things, they are minor. Euro Disneyland is a $4.2 billion project, now nearly six years...