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Hometown Pride Your special report on Hong Kong dwelled on expatriates and returnees, perpetuating the misconception that the city's indigenous majority has no value to the city's development other than as its money-driven labor [June 18]. A city can never be great if the majority of its...
So with no family that I know of still in Mongolia, I returned for the archetypical soul-search that people my age often embark upon. I was elated, until I discovered that most Mongolians hate the Chinese. My daydream gave way to the fear of being a pariah in the...
Hometown Pride Your special report on Hong Kong dwelled on expatriates and returnees, perpetuating the misconception that the city's indigenous majority has no value to the city's development other than its money-driven labor [June 18]. A city can never be great if the majority of its population...
"There's something to be said for a great voice to so many cultures and nations in one church," says Fr. Thomas Baima, provost of the University of St. Mary of the Lake-Mundelein Seminary. "But the numbers are down. Society has changed. We need to reach out differently."
Anthropologists are trying to figure out why. Homo sapiens produces the most slowly maturing young of all mammals. Among foraging humans, children need 19 years--and consume 13 million calories--before producing more food for their community than they take from it, according to research by anthropologist Hillard Kaplan. You...