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White Bear, a dancer from the Apache reservation in Arizona, said that the grass dances were the first ones performed at powwows in the Plains regions. According to the program, young men danced in patterns that flattened the tall prairie grass so that others could gather and dance on it. Today, the grass dancers wear long fringe to emulate the grass and its movement...
...powers that be fail to take action, by decision or indecision, then we shall support those who do. By buying a green “Save Darfur” bracelet, you will provide non-lethal supplies—food, tents, gasoline—to troops who save lives and gather evidence to prosecute the masterminds of the genocide. As Harvard students who do not often have a chance to directly impact the lives of the oppressed in Africa, this is an opportunity we should all embrace...
...into the background by TV during the 1950s, the medium did not die; it merely took on new forms. As TV became the nation's main purveyor of mass entertainment, radio turned predominantly local and aimed to please smaller, more specific segments of the audience. The whole family might gather around the TV set at night, but people usually encountered radio in private moments--waking up in the morning, driving to work, getting ready for bed. Soon everyone from country-music fans to news junkies had a station to call...
...well. That possibility thrusts itself on her daughter Sybill, a middle-aged spinster who sees a hypnotist to have her subconscious unclogged. Her mother inconveniently expires before Sybill can begin an inquiry. To her siblings, that is just as well. They, and the cousins and in-laws who gather for the funeral, regard talk of ancient murder as tiresome and hysterical. This is an unfocused bunch, and they are not in the mood for Faulknerian horror...
According to Herd, of the U.S. Geological Survey, the Colombians had begun to take precautions when the cataclysm struck. Authorities had established three separate teams of experts to address the volcanic threat: one to monitor the development of the hazard, another to gather information about the likely outcome of an eruption and a third to formulate an emergency plan. As part of that response, the Colombians had produced the so-called hazard maps that so accurately laid out the path of the looming disaster...