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...that the answer to the question of how could Africans enslave other African, is that they did not know they were African. Thus, on the coast both Europeans and Africans traded outsiders. In addition slavery in Africa was an important method of recruitment for the kinship group ? and the kin group was perhaps more important than the individual as the basic unit of society. Slaves conferred prestige both to the group and the individual owner. Slaves were expected to labor, but their main function was not, or not only, economic. More important, as a member of a kin group, albeit...
...Marion Jones and Maurice Greene - two very different people had taken two very different routes to arrive within .88 sec. of each other at the same destination: fastest in the world. And then something happened that showed they were true kin under the skin. As Jones, overwhelmed, broke down sobbing under the stands, Greene was in the stadium behaving in an extraordinary manner - not swaggering, but crying too. "Tears of joy," both runners called them later...
...Behind the scenes, there were more Kennedys. Representative Patrick Kennedy, one of the party's most prolific fund-raisers, and Maryland lieutenant governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, who is reportedly testing the waters for a 2002 gubernatorial campaign, met with news outlets before their kin took the stage. And as they spoke with Larry King et al., the message was clear: A new generation of Kennedys is on the scene - diminished, perhaps, by their distance from the glories of the past - purposeful, committed, and, it would appear, ready for prime time...
...study of how life could form elsewhere in the universe. In 1994 she made her first trip to Yellowstone to study the springs. Cady knew she might find heat-loving microbes in the scalding water, but she had no reason to think she would find remains of their deceased kin. When she looked at rock samples under a microscope, however, she discovered that they bore the fossilized imprints of bacterial sheets that gave silica a place to cling as the rocks were forming. "I was flabbergasted," she says...
...Explorer Hernando de __ 28. Refusenik's refusal 30. Form 1040 deduction 31. 401(k) cousins 32. First name in scat 35. Command for D.D.E. 38. It'll curl your hair 40. Andrew, leader of one of the Solomon Islands' warring factions 42. Photo from an original Polaroid 44. Cod kin 45. It may get smashed 46. Tribal tales 48. Be dependent 50. Produce cackleberries 51. Atlas letters until 1991 52. Mdse. 53. President McKinley's fourth Secretary of State 54. Grand Ole Opry broadcaster...