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...really comprehended the fact that I’m Jewish. I don’t think it really registered with them that I don’t believe in Jesus.” Korea has a negligible number of Jews, too few to be listed by the CIA World Factbook. In America, Jews make up 1.7 percent of the population according to the CIA, while at Harvard, according to the international Hillel website, about 25 percent of the student body is Jewish. Despite this difference, the filmmakers said that they believe that Jewish students’ experiences will be relevant...

Author: By Julie M. Zauzmer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Korean TV Tapes Students at Hillel | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

...dossier instead of an exotic travelogue about a perfumed and misty land. He lists Cambodia's trade goods (kingfisher feathers, rosewood and beeswax in return for Chinese pewter, celadon and combs), stripping its flora and fauna of the romance of place in a manner more reminiscent of a CIA Factbook entry than Polo's Il Milione. "For vegetables," he writes, "they have onions, mustard, chives, eggplants, watermelons, winter gourds, snake gourds, and amaranth. They do not have radishes, lettuce, chicory, or spinach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Angkor Thom | 9/9/2009 | See Source »

SOURCE: CIA WORLD FACTBOOK, 2008 ESTIMATES

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spotlight: A Mission to Burma | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

SOURCES: CIA WORLD FACTBOOK, CHINESE AGRICULTURE MINISTRY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

...Luxembourg is just 999 square miles, “slightly smaller than Rhode Island.” (Thanks, CIA World Factbook...

Author: By Karan Lodha, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Big List, Small Country | 9/26/2007 | See Source »

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