Word: dead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...price. Says Dr. Kate Gingell, a British physician at a hospital in the northern province of Tete: "Money is useless here. You can't buy food that isn't there. So you see people scrabbling through litter for food, and you see people literally dropping dead in the street. People come to die on my veranda." One man told how he and his family hiked for more than a week to get to Zimbabwe from Tete. "There is nothing there," he said of his home territory. "We were walking through villages of death. In village after village, people...
...Hemisphere, in Cuba, where 460,000 swine were killed to eliminate the disease. In 1978 it turned up in the Dominican Republic after a local pig supposedly ate contaminated ham from Spain. The vi rus quickly jumped the 200-mile common border into Haiti. Haitians recall seeing pigs fall dead in their tracks on the road and in the fields. But no one was able to determine accurately whether the deaths were all attributable to swine fever, or to hog cholera or some other epidemic disease. Many Haitians contend that only a few pigs were afflicted with the dread African...
...bounty of $300 is now being offered for any remaining black pig, dead or alive, that can be turned up. That is a huge sum in rural Haiti, but voodoo priests are rumored to be hiding some native swine for use in their rituals. Explains one priest: "Some little gods will accept a black goat in place of a pig, but the important gods will...
...precocious kid who was never far from the popcorn stand or the VCR or the Late Show. So did I. But I was wrong. This place is like school, only with trees. The first thing, I come in and they hand me a bunch of old books about dead movie stars. "You got to brush up on your nostalgia," they say. "What nostalgia?" I say. "I'm twelve years...
Israel's illegal pre-independence army, Yadin used his knowledge of biblical history and ancient fortifications to help construct modern battle plans. Two decades later, after gaining acclaim for obtaining the Dead Sea Scrolls and other ancient manuscripts, he led the excavations at the fortress of Masada, where he proved that nearly 1,000 Jewish defenders committed suicide in A.D. 73 rather than surrender to the Romans...