Word: homelands
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...hate the idea of being the foreigner who likens everything to her homeland, but China’s hinterland increasingly resembles the American West. In some ways this makes me happy because everything alike about America and China, two fairly dissimilar nations, is one less reason for misunderstanding. Other times, though, this similarity is disconcerting. Maybe it is naive of me, but I’m surprised to realize that geography, like history, repeats itself...
...artist Pérez Celis moved comfortably through many media, producing innovative sculptures, paintings and murals and even recently illustrating a Spanish translation of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. While he exhibited his work around the globe and lived abroad for many years, his devotion was ultimately to his homeland and his favorite sports team. Two of Celis' colorful murals adorn the walls at the Buenos Aires stadium of his beloved Boca Juniors soccer team. He died of leukemia...
...envelopes to the spores under Ivins' control. But scientists who study anthrax remain mystified by what this new science actually is. "The nature of biological weapons is such that it is very difficult to figure out where something came from," says Randall Larsen, author of a 2007 book on homeland security, Our Own Worst Enemy. After watching the press conference on Aug. 6 and reading the documents, Tara O'Toole, director of the Center for Biosecurity at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, found no answers to her questions. "We don't know what techniques were used to link...
Some Chinese coaches were lured abroad by lucrative contracts that offered far higher salaries than what they might make as a cog in their homeland's state sports system. Others, though, were motivated by different concerns. James Li, who coaches American runner Lagat, decided to stay abroad in the U.S. in 1989 largely because of the Tiananmen crackdown on pro-democracy protestors. He has trained Lagat for the past 12 years and last year was named coach of the year by the American track and field authority...
When he wrote his letter to Pitt, Williams was the Archbishop of Wales, his homeland and a diocese where he openly ordained gay priests. His appointment as Archbishop of Canterbury in 2003 was made in the full knowledge of that and liberals within the Church reasonably assumed that he would be the charismatic champion of the kind of church they longed...