Word: ethiopia
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...world's wit were rolled into one portly fellow. PETER USTINOV, who died last week at 82, once boasted, "I have Russian, German, Spanish, Italian, French and Ethiopian blood in my veins" (his great-grandfather wedded the Princess of Ethiopia). He spoke six languages, and a few others of his own comic invention. With gifts too wide-ranging to be contained in one art form, he wrote hit plays (Romanoff and Juliet) and books of nonfiction and short stories. He could be an excellent film director (Billy Budd) and a serious Shakespearean (King Lear at Stratford, Ont.). He won Supporting...
...good news is that firing a gun on board would be unlikely to bring down a plane. A commercial aircraft is strong enough to withstand multiple bullet holes, according to a Boeing executive's testimony before Congress last year. Israel, Germany, Russia, Ethiopia and Canada are known to use or have used armed marshals...
...many, the treacherous voyage across the Mediterranean is just the final leg of a months-long journey during which they risk their lives - at the hands of crooked smugglers, in the backs of suffocating trucks, on the decks of leaking fishing boats - to reach Europe. Abdi Salan crossed Ethiopia, Sudan, Libya and the Mediterranean before touching Italian territory. His journey started in January, when he left his family and friends behind to embark on a harrowing odyssey in pursuit of his European dream. This is his story. THE FIRST STEP In Mogadishu, the sweet-faced, rail-thin young man named...
...next boat. But instead, he is hurried into a warehouse where dozens of other would-be immigrants are camped out. One of them is a 24-year-old Somali named Ismail, who has traveled a route not unlike Abdi Salan's from Somalia to Ethiopia, Sudan and Libya. Swapping road stories, they form a close bond. Others have been trapped in this building for more than a month, and told nothing about when or if they will be leaving. With less than $100 left in his black satchel, Abdi Salan is terrified that the smugglers will simply walk off with...
...Born in Ethiopia, Samuelsson was orphaned at age 3 by a tuberculosis epidemic in his homeland. He and his elder sister were adopted by a Swedish couple and grew up in the port city of Gothenburg. Samuelsson began cooking when he was about 6 at the side of his Swedish grandmother, Helga Jonsson. "I learned the most about food from my grandmother," he says. "Her world completely revolved around food." After a stint at culinary school, followed by work in kitchens throughout Europe, Samuelsson became executive chef at New York City's sleek Aquavit in 1995 when he was only...