Word: cowing
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...ability to read Chinese was already poor, and all I could pick out was some choice vocabulary like "cow" and "noodles...
...Lopez Lomong was living in a Kenyan refugee camp, one of the Lost Boys of the Sudan who had seen unimaginable horrors for most of his young life. He had just earned 5 shillings for washing someone's cow, and his friends wanted to walk five miles to the only black-and-white TV in town to watch something called the Olympics. Lomong had never heard of such a thing. When his crew finally arrived, he had to pay to see the tube. Price: 5 shillings...
...culture still rules in huge swaths of Yemen, where tribal traditions are strong and the judiciary is weak. Many "don't believe in the law, so they take revenge using their own arms," says Marwani. Blood feuds over anything from a pilfered cow to a perceived slight account for an estimated 1,200 revenge killings a year. Entire families become targets for retaliation, leaving parents scared to send children to school and farmers afraid to till their crops. Revenge killing is "a main obstacle for investment, for development and for democracy," says Noor Mohamed Baabad, Yemen's Deputy Minister...
...Holy cow! It looks like the Pope has really gone overboard this time. His latest encyclical contains a list of sins so sweeping that it is now practically a sin to be a human being. Paul Hoylen Jr. Deming, New Mexico...
...microorganisms. Wisely, Lanchner has concentrated on the best years of Miro's career, from 1915 to about 1960, and skipped the enormous output of prints and the flood of repetitious paintings he turned out in the last quarter-century of his life in his role as a sacred cash cow for the Galerie Maeght in Paris. Late Miro is dull fodder, except episodically; its high points are rare and generally have to do with civic decor, of which the big sculpture raised in the '80s in the Parc de l'Escorxador in Barcelona is probably the best. But this takes...