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...Time is a cultural object." For many outside the Western European tradition, for instance, time is a circle that turns on a daily, yearly and even a cosmic scale. The Hindu concept of reincarnation is perhaps the most familiar example, but the Hopi in the American Southwest and the Inuit in the Arctic also look at the world as a series of repeating cycles with no beginning or end; so, traditionally, did the Chinese and Japanese cultures...
Even if fishing is brought under control, the Bering Sea faces threats that originate thousands of miles away. Wind currents from industrial areas far to the south bring in pollutants like insecticides and heavy metals, which collect in the tissues of wildlife and the local Inuit people. At the same time the region has been warming up, and part of the reason may be the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Whatever the cause, sea ice has been retreating farther to the north, making life harder for polar bears and other ice-dwelling animals...
McCormack himself can say "hello" in over 65 different languages, including Bantu, Inuit and Urdu...
...have probably heard of the Inuit who barred a stranger from using his hearth because the fire might only be half as warm if two people shared it. Since a Harvard education should be a resource more like a fire than an apple, it is good to hear many students planning to share it by entering "public service" in one of three forms: financial contribution (apolitical donations to soup kitchens or inner-city programs), political office and direct service provision involving daily and face-to-face contact with clients. Overwhelmingly, however, Harvard students prefer the first two forms of public...
...White Rose she is a figure of eros and pathos, driving her lover quietly nuts with her desperate vitality; the turn won her a Hong Kong Film Critics award. Back in the West, she copped a less prestigious prize--a Razzie nomination for worst actress--when she played an Inuit activist in Steven Seagal's On Deadly Ground. In that and Judge Dredd, she was just fabulous-looking furniture...