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Menchu says she will use the prize money to set up a foundation in her father's name to defend the rights of indigenous people. "The only thing I wish for is freedom for Indians wherever they are," she says. "As the end of the 20th century approaches, we hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Strike Against Racism | 10/26/1992 | See Source »

On the Continent's southern flank, villages on the Aegean islands were busily trading olive oil, wine and pottery with the Greek mainland and Crete. In Crete fashionable women sported ankle-length dresses, with necklines low enough to make Madonna blush. (The art of weaving originated more than a millennium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World in 3300 B.C. | 10/26/1992 | See Source »

The Egyptians were far ahead of anyone else in Africa, but the 4th millennium B.C. was a crucial time for the rest of the continent as well. The climate started to get progressively dryer, and the Sahara expanded into a vast desert. Nomadic tribes that herded cattle, sheep and goats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World in 3300 B.C. | 10/26/1992 | See Source »

In the last 11 years, Dance Umbrella has presented dance from every continent except Australia. Every season, Director Jeremy Alliger sets the organization's political agenda. He then chooses from a pool of stellar companies and combines them to deliver his message to the public.

Author: By Phoebe Cushman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dance Umbrella: | 10/22/1992 | See Source »

Thus there was little panic, not even much interest, as the millennium approached in the final months of 999. For what terrors could the apocalypse hold for a continent that was already shrouded in darkness? Rather Europe -- illiterate, diseased and hungry -- seemed grimly resigned to desperation and impoverishment. It was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life in 999: A Grim Struggle | 10/15/1992 | See Source »

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