Word: kung
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...DeVore was deep in the Kalahari desert, performing the first professional study of the !Kung San people (Bushmen) of Botswana, who are known in the West for their click-full language...
When an eccentric old Mongolian walked into the backyard of a laid-back American poet in 1987, neither imagined, surely, that they would one day be lurching through modern China in search of a teacher's grave. But Tsing Tsai proved to be no ordinary monk, poet and kung-fu master; and George Crane turned out to be a sympathetic Sancho Panza and inner Mongolian at heart. Written with the quick, vivid immediacy of an ancient Eastern poem, Bones beautifully recounts the recent heartbreaking history of Mongolia--and shows how spirit can get the better of even the deepest sorrow...
...Fundamentally, new technologies take money to develop. Whatever new things we do, we need to find people who are willing to pay for it," said Gates Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering H.T. Kung, who teaches the course...