Word: eurasian
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...McGovern is hoping to solve the biggest mystery of all, which is where and when the Eurasian grapevine--the species from which 99% of the world's wine is derived--was first taken under cultivation. For unlike the ancient ancestor of modern corn, which has been traced to a valley in southern Mexico, the wild Eurasian grapevine grows across a broad geographic range. It is therefore possible, though McGovern thinks unlikely, that it was domesticated by several cultures independently. What will eventually help resolve the question, McGovern says, are ancient snippets of DNA from wine residues and shriveled raisins that...
...from?" without a pause. It's not just Western kids in Asia who feel the tug: Asians in Europe face the same sense of internal conflict. Lili Sin Hidge is a Malaysian-raised Hong Kong Chinese living in London. She has two teenage daughters with her husband, a Eurasian who grew up in South Africa. "They're much more free to do what they want," she says of kids in England. "But I want my children to be at home with me until they go to university or get married...
...pause. It's not just Western kids in Asia who feel this tug of conflicting identities: Asians in Europe face exactly the same sense of internal conflict. Lili Sin Hidge is a Malaysian-raised Hong Kong Chinese living in London. She has two teenage daughters with her husband, a Eurasian who grew up in South Africa. "They're much more free to do what they want," she says of kids in England. "But I want my children to be at home with me until they go to university or get married...
...pseudo family for homesick expats, a place of endless sundowners and fluttering Union Jacks?as well as these characteristics, the archetypal Empire clubs, until the late-20th century, shared another: unwritten color bars. May Holdsworth, in her history of Hong Kong expatriate life, Foreign Devils, cites Anne Baker, a Eurasian whose white husband had to resign from the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club in the 1950s upon marrying her. Also quoted is Michael Wright, a former government architect, who remembers that at the Hong Kong Club "there was nothing in the rules to say that Chinese couldn't join...
Alexander Pring-Wilson, a graduate student in Harvard’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, was arrested and jailed for allegedly stabbing to death 18-year-old Cambridge resident Michael D. Colono...