Word: journeyer
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...YEAR-OLDS AND UP: Software in this category often appeals to both kids and adults. The Oregon Trail, from MECC, sends users on a simulated journey along the famous trail. Along the way, they grapple with many of the same problems that the pioneers faced, such as how much food to carry. The Cruncher, from Davidson, has a practical aim: it introduces kids to spreadsheets and accounting principles by asking them to figure out the full cost of activities such as planning a vacation or owning a pet. Microsoft's Dinosaurs brings the beasts back to life in gripping detail...
Julie and Pascal Munyanziza and their two children, who had fled to the south, made the journey back to their tidy three-room house in a mixed Tutsi and Hutu section of Kigali. They found all the windows broken and much of the furniture gone, but the windows have been patched and the house now bears a handwritten sign: IYINZU BANYIRAYO BARAHARI (The owner is here). "If you don't mark your house," says Munyanziza, "someone will take...
...from the Kashmir region of northern India, where they had been described in 1795 by the Rev. Thomas Maurice in The History of Hindostan. Alexander and a friend, forbidden to travel there because of political turmoil, attached themselves to a mob of religious pilgrims and pressed on regardless. The journey was not entirely spiritual; an overcrowded campsite was fouled with human dung. This does not prevent Alexander from creating a beautiful scene. "I saw, on drawing back the tent flaps," she writes, "snowdrifts gleaming on the towering black peaks and, a long way beneath them, a wobbly line of light...
...near term the growth of the Middle East economy is likely to remain limited. But both Arabs and Israelis seem to have reached a critical way station on the journey to peace: a mutual conviction that they would rather make money than...
...want to sound like a bad version of 'the child within,"' says co- producer Wendy Finerman, who discovered the novel in galleys nine years ago and nurtured the film to fruition. "But the childlike innocence of Forrest Gump is what we all once had. It's an emotional journey. You laugh and cry. It does what movies are suppose to do: make you feel alive...