Word: gatherered
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...Like many of the Med's fishermen, life has become far more precarious for them, as they struggle to compete against international companies. As the blistering afternoon sun beats down, the fishermen of Garrucha (pop. 8,000) pull their boats into the harbor with the day's catch, and gather in a café on the dockside. Over coffee they talk for hours. "Fuel prices have risen, and fish prices are really low. We wonder if it is worth it anymore," says Juan Cervantes, 55, who began fishing on his father's boat at age 14, married a local girl...
...contrariness than conviction--he also spent six years studying at a medicine man's shrine. Now he's the director of the Ugandan chapter of Prometra, a Senegal-based advocacy group promoting traditional medicine. Sekagya runs an outdoor school in a forest south of Kampala. About 100 students gather weekly under a leafy canopy. Instructors line up herbs on a thin wooden table cut from a single log. Along with the basics of hygiene and anatomy, students learn the identification and uses of local plants. Meanwhile, spiritualists chant, dance and drum to call down spirits and consult them for cures...
...members of France’s five most elite academies—the first of which was founded in the 17th century by Cardinal Richelieu, and all of which are now grouped under a gilded cupola facing the Seine, ironically just steps away from where noisy tourist masses gather near the Saint Michel fountain.In Paris for the summer just like so many of my American college peers, I found my alibi for being here in a certain senior thesis on French history that remains entirely to be written. Generously funded by Harvard’s Minda de Gunzburg Center...
...test shocked Japan, and prompted Tokyo to increase its intelligence efforts, missile defenses and military cooperation with the U.S. In March 2003, Japan launched two satellites to gather intelligence on North Korea. And in late June, Japan's Yomuiri newspaper reported that Japan had agreed in May to the deployment of advanced Patriot interceptor missiles on U.S. bases in Japan by the end of the year. Japan okayed the Patriot deployment, the paper said, largely due to the increasing threat of North Korea...
...Japan prefers to decide in consultation with the other key players in the crisis - the U.S., South Korea and China - in the days ahead. At a Wednesday press conference, Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe said the missile test was "a serious problem," but that Japan would explore its options, gather more information and confer with other affected nations before it took further action...