Word: inlander
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...final summer weekend of his presidency on a strange sojourn in raw, unfinished Abuja trying to shake other misperceptions about Nigeria. Abuja, like Brasilia and - come to think of it - Washington, D.C., was nothing until the Nigerian government decided a generation ago to move their capital 300 miles inland. The Gwari tribe was forced off its land as the government began constructing its new capital here in the middle of the country. They chose the sparsely-populated region because it isn't dominated by any of the three major tribes, the Hausa, the Yoruba, and the Igbo...
...lifted pretty directly from his own life in 1994. "I was in St. Martin, and I went to a little French restaurant. I said, 'Do you have any local catch?' thinking that I'd outsmart the frozen-fish scene. But it didn't work, because it is the inland fish, the reef feeders, who get these poisons." Thanks to Freedman's quick thinking in an emergency, Bellow was flown back to Boston and landed in intensive care. Rumors at the time had him near death. "It took me a couple of years to come back from that," he says...
...oceans already," says TIME science writer Frederic Golden, "and we need an alternative supply." To counter the risks, the developers of GM fish say they will apply an electric shock to the super salmon embryos, causing infertility in adulthood, and that the fish will be raised in closed or inland tanks...
...they still think they can whip Bush by taking San Francisco and San Diego as well as working-class areas like the Inland Empire of San Bernardino and Riverside counties, where you've got more Costco Republicans than country-club Republicans. "It gets back to the one thing I learned at the feet of Nixon," says McCain strategist Ken Kachigian. "It's not the prose, it's the poetry...
...Thai entrepreneurs who owned the prime Ko Pha-Ngan waterfront were, at one point, the black sheep of their respective clans. Beaches were useless: the prime coconut-farming plots were inland. But with the arrival of the sand-loving farangs, a whole new economy emerged. Families like the Thuaycharoens, known locally as the Khaos, grew wealthy building bungalow complexes and beach bars. Mustachioed Mr. Khao is now governor of the whole province. Bespectacled Mrs. Khao manages their real estate empire from behind the counter of her two-aisle grocery store. The kids who buy rolling papers and beer from...