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...Your first sight of Machu Picchu comes after you've passed the final checkpoint-the Sun Gate and its near-vertical flight of 50 stone steps. Spread before you, in the distance, is Machu Picchu's labyrinth of temples, terraces and plazas. This is where the descent into the ancient city begins-and, with luck, you will have arrived shortly before the last tourist bus departs (at 5:30 p.m.). That means you could have this astonishing, spiritual haunt virtually to yourself, in conditions of near silence. Now how's that for a sense of arrival...
Noorzai's position as tribal leader was more than an honorific. Leadership is not simply inherited: while descent is important, a chief usually emerges by consensus, recognized for his military prowess, his charisma, and his skill with money and negotiation. Noorzai needed all those qualities when the world changed on Sept. 11, 2001. He immediately understood that the U.S. would retaliate and that the Taliban's days were numbered. That day Noorzai was at one of his homes in the Pakistani border city of Quetta, a two-story fortresslike structure. He left quickly for Afghanistan to prepare for the coming...
Hajin Kim ’07, an economics concentrator of Korean descent, said that the free trade agreement that exists between Chile and South Korea was one factor in her decision to study abroad there in the fall of her sophomore year. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...more than 10 possible matches for the 21-year-old in the world bone marrow registry, and whether those donors would fully match Cross or be willing to donate is uncertain. Because bone marrow type is likely to be shared within populations, Cross, of Korean and Western European descent, is most likely to find a match among Asian and European donors...
...please don?t go, cause I love you so. (Ray Charles did two or three in this vein.) But, as one of Brown?s rare songs with more than three chords, it had some musical ingenuity: a desperate statement following by him and the saxes in a slow, keening descent...