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...scattered around the world. But Uigur? Margaret Gulotta, chief of the FBI?s language services program, says this Turkish-based language, spoken by about eight million people in China?s Sinkiang Uigur autonomous region, has come up occasionally in terrorism cases.. Ditto Amharic and Tigrinya, spoken in Ethiopia, Tamil, the language of the Sri Lankan terrorist group Tamil Tigers, and the dialects of Southeast Asia, where Muslim extremism is rising. ?About 90 percent of the world?s population speak [one of] 60 or 70 languages,? says Gulotta, ?but there are about 6000 languages and dialects spoken in the world...
...earful from Summers as well as swarms of House tutors who constantly talk up public service, post-graduate fellowships and overseas volunteer work in impoverished countries. Sounds great, but for the majority of students who don’t get $20,000 to feed starving children in Ethiopia, public service often ceases to be an option...
Scully has little doubt that initial objections to Liya, 25, who is originally from Ethiopia, had less to do with her experience than her race. It's a problem he often confronts when trying to get work for Asian, Hispanic or black models. "I once tried to make a magazine editor use a black girl on a shoot, and she didn't speak to me for two weeks," he says. Resistance can be cloaked in euphemisms. "I've had a photographer's agent tell me, 'He doesn't know how to shoot black girls,'" he says. Sometimes things are more...
...amounts to a 4% return, says the bank, which beats the 3% yield on standard savings accounts. The downside: you're locked into that rate for three years. The coffee option, offered in 13 of Rabobank's member institutions in the Netherlands, pays out organic, Fair Trade coffee from Ethiopia, Honduras and Peru. Next: CDs that yield doughnuts...
When the scientists returned 11 days later, it took them only minutes to find the skulls of two adults, probably male. Six days after that, Berhane Asfaw of Ethiopia's Rift Valley Research Service found a third, the skull of a 6-or 7-year-old child, shattered into about 200 pieces. After years of painstaking cleaning, reassembly and study, the team was confident enough to tell the world that it had found the earliest true Homo sapiens--older by at least 1,000 generations than anything previously discovered. "It's not a modern human," says White...