Word: guyana
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...Habitat for Humanity Participants in Habitat's Global Village programs spend one to three weeks helping build houses for needy families in any of 60 countries, including Mozambique, Ireland, Samoa, New Zealand, Guyana...
...resources," says Daniel Esty, a Yale professor and ESI's creator. (If you're wondering who got the eco?booby prize, it's North Korea.) "The ESI can help a discerning traveler find unexpected ecological treasures. The strong showing of Uruguay [No. 3], beautiful beaches and sprawling pampas, and Guyana [No. 8], unspoiled coast and vibrant jungle [Kaieteur Falls], might provide you with a surprise travel opportunity," says Esty. There's nothing like scenic beauty plus a clear conscience...
Participants in Habitat's Global Village programs spend one to three weeks helping build houses for needy families in any of 60 countries, including Mozambique, Ireland, Samoa, New Zealand, Guyana...
...Werner Herzog has a real-life visionary in his viewfinder. Graham Dorrington, seated behind Herzog, above, is an English scientist who dreams of building and flying an airship--not a giant Zeppelin but a small vessel shaped like a white diamond. Handsome and haunted, Dorrington has traveled to Guyana to make the damn thing...
DIED. Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham, 62, President of Guyana and authoritarian ruler of his Caribbean-rim nation (pop. 800,000) since two years before independence in 1966; during an operation for a throat ailment; in Georgetown, Guyana. Folksy and sharp-witted, with a flair for oratory, he won the 1964 election by playing on tensions between ethnic Indians and blacks and on U.S. and British fears of Marxist Cheddi Jagan, the first pre-independence Premier. Thereafter he blended leftist rhetoric, aggressive nonalignment and a socialist policy that professed economic self-sufficiency but led, partly because of depressed commodity prices...