Word: kigali
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...computer version -- which is played with the help of books like a the World Almanac or an atlas -- competitors may be shown an image of Socrates and have to know when he lived in order to move to the next clue. Carmen's trail may lead a player from Kigali to Istanbul, from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Cowboy Hall of Fame, or from the Leaning Tower of Pisa to Mayan ruins. Some of the questions are far from easy: players may have to know the currency of a distant country, identify a South Pacific island tribe, or describe...
...disease is spreading fast in Africa, where it was first detected in 1982, but is believed by some medical researchers to have appeared decades earlier. In Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, one test discovered AIDS exposure in 18% of the city's inhabitants. In Uganda, a study of more than 1,000 pregnant women in the capital city of Kampala showed that 13.6% carried the virus. While male victims outnumber female victims by 13 to 1 in the U.S., in Africa the disease appears to strike women and men in roughly equal numbers. The same holds true in Haiti...
...Islands near Ceylon are so poor that the U.N. must forward their mail through the Maldivian Philatelic Agency, located in Manhattan down the street from Macy's. Rwanda President Gregoire Kayibanda's chief government handicap is even more serious: he has no telephone in his palace in Kigali. Periodically he sends a minister driving off to neighboring Uganda to find out what is happening in the world. Rwanda is, however, progressing; until recently, it had only a barter economy based on cows. National pride also engenders pretensions as well as problems. Impoverished Dahomey boasts...