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...season planting, weeding, harvesting, and storing their corn, then they must strip it, then winnow it, then soak it, then lay it out to dry, then carry it to a grinder or pound it by hand, then dry it again, and then finally—after walking to gather fuel wood and water—build a fire and cook...
...handful of students will gather today in leafy Tercentenary Theatre for a ceremony filled with all the pomp and circumstance of Commencement. As newly-commissioned officers in the U.S. armed forces, the students are part of a tradition of service that dates back decades and that once involved hundreds of students. Today’s ceremony will also highlight a relatively new tradition: an address by the university president, the seventh in eight years...
...after traveling on a phony passport and claiming he wanted to visit Disneyland. Jong Un, Fujimoto writes, is different. He and his brother Jong Chul enjoyed playing basketball - but after the games, Jong Chul would just say goodbye to their friends and leave. Jong Un would then gather up his teammates and, like a coach, analyze the game they just played: "You should have passed the ball to this guy, you should have shot it then." According to various, usually unsourced South Korean press reports since Fujimoto's book came out, Jong Un is said to be "ambitious...
...representatives of the 35 member states of the Organization of American States (OAS), including U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, gather this week in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, for its general assembly, the region's powers themselves are grappling with their own powerfully symbolic diplomatic dilemma: how to readmit communist Cuba while adhering to an OAS charter whose rules require democratic government...
Being social isn't for dummies. Animals that gather into packs, herds or troops - never mind into cities and countries - need to be smart. How else to negotiate the complex rules and hierarchies of their cultures? It's not for nothing that sharks, among the dimmest of the large carnivores, are loners, or that humans - far and away the smartest - are so enthusiastically collectivist...