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Twice a year the monks and priests of the Church of Narga Selassie on Dek Island in northern Ethiopia gather to bless an urn of water scooped from the lake that surrounds them. They pray over the water for three days and ask God to sanctify it in the name of Jesus. Then, in a small stone alcove, the head monk pours the water over a silver cross, its detailed engravings worn almost smooth with centuries of polishing, and onto the heads of believers who come in their dozens to be baptized. For the rest of the year the waters...
...DIED. Sir Jack Cater, 84, Hong Kong corruption-fighter widely credited with eliminating endemic graft in the then colony in the 1970s; on Britain's Channel Island of Guernsey. As head of the newly formed Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC), the ex-Royal Air Force squadron leader cracked down on the city's notoriously crooked police force and inefficient bureaucracy. He was appointed Hong Kong's Chief Secretary in 1978 under Governor Murray MacLehose, and later became its Commissioner to London before retiring from government...
...enjoy reading while increasing their eco-smarts." With 20,000 visitors a day and a searchable archive of 5,500 posts, it's the largest green-lifestyle website out there. And there are TreeHuggerTV weekly videos and podcasts, with one episode documenting plans for an electric pedicab in Long Island City...
...helps him to be aware and interact with art and politics in a unique way. He says, “I engage with history, with memory; I hover between two places, which is a way of forming insight.” Whether explaining the long-term use of Robin Island on the tip of Southern Africa as a place where “people who were considered outsiders, whether lepers or political prisoners, were kept” or evoking complex South African language politics through a piece about fig trees, Stopforth’s remarkable skill as storyteller, political actor...
...texts or draw inferences. On neither account is standardized testing the right answer. The value of the college experience, by its very nature, cannot be easily categorized or quantified. Ranging from heavily science-oriented schools like the California Institute of Technology to exclusively arts-based institutions like the Rhode Island School of Design, colleges include within their ranks a vastly diverse array of academic emphases. Even within each institution, a multitude of disciplines exists, making it necessary for students to select only a few specific areas for study in greater depth. The diversity of experiences offered makes it exceptionally difficult...