Word: continente
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Students from Connecticut passed out tie-dyed t-shirts with a black bleeding Africa, and a tiny red heart in the middle of the continent, which they said they had spent all night making.
It is doubtful that Nicolas Sarkozy has ever heard of the late Texan country singer Ernest Tubb, a rhinestone cowboy with a honky-tonk twang. But last week the French Interior Minister seemed to be humming a French version of Tubb's 1970 classic, It's America (Love It or...
Now the continent's most populous country is trying to clean up its currency's act. In recent weeks, the Central Bank of Nigeria has launched a campaign urging citizens to take better care of their money. Advertisements in newspapers, magazines and on television ask Nigerians to "Stop the Abuse...
Twice a year the monks and priests of the Church of Narga Selassie on Dek Island in northern Ethiopia gather to bless an urn of water scooped from the lake that surrounds them. They pray over the water for three days and ask God to sanctify it in the name...
Re "Asia's Overscheduled Kids" [March 27]: In Hindu mythology there are three goddesses of power. Durga represents physical power and courage, Lakshmi the power of wealth and Saraswati the power of knowledge. In the present context, you could say Saraswati occupies the commanding seat. Asia is emerging as a...