Word: cordillera
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Jesus lives in a scene unchanged since the birth of Christ. By day the teenager helps his father tend the colossal rice terraces built by his ancestors in an amphitheater around Batad, a village in the northern Philippine Central Cordillera. The same stone-walled fields have passed from father to son for 2,000 years. At night the family of six cooks over a fire and sleeps in a grass-thatched...
...area is about a 10-hour drive north of Manila. An alternate return route is via Sagada to the west, where villagers place their dead in coffins suspended from cliffs, and then south to Baguio. The unpaved road between them through the Cordillera (good walking country) can be spectacular. From Baguio, return to Manila by road...
...million Vietnam veterans and the 750,000 Vietnamese who live in the U.S. The 3,600 members of National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia still believe there may be loved ones locked in prisons hidden somewhere in the impenetrable Annamese Cordillera. What-might-have-been gnaws at some of the draft dodgers who fled to Canada or into the National Guard. Certainly the war prompted career choices for young men who joined the Peace Corps or enrolled in graduate school to stay out of the Army...
...work of minor French cubists like Gleizes or Metzinger seem wispy and ladylike by comparison. The extreme case was Zapatista Landscape--The Guerrilla, Rivera's masterpiece of 1915. It has everything in it from a rifle and pistol holster to a sarape, a sombrero and the snow-capped Mexican cordillera. Yet despite all the detail, the figure of % the Zapatista is hard to find; some analogy between cubist hide-and-seek and a real guerrilla's elusiveness got Rivera thinking about camouflage and disappearance...
...Chileans and Argentines are already eying the mineral potential of the Antarctic Peninsula, a natural extension of the tin-and copper-rich Andean cordillera. New Zealand continues to call the region that includes McMurdo its Ross Dependency...