Word: lande
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When his father sent for the family, a seriousness came over Da-i. The 12-year-old packed his own bags and stayed awake throughout the flight to watch over his mother and his younger brother. They were traveling to a land they did not know and whose language they did not speak. It would be a place where they would receive new names and new identities. Their father, a devout Christian who now called himself Paul, had picked the boys' American names from the Bible. Thus it came to pass that Ho Da-i became David...
...Jesus to commemorate Christmas. Tourists traveling to Bethlehem were met with a gantlet of Israeli checkpoints, sniper towers and barbed wire fences to reach Manger Square, where they were greeted by armed Palestinian soldiers. Violence earlier this year and the slowed peace negotiations have dampened tourism to the Holy Land this season. Shop owners who rely on Christmas holidays to sustain them through lean months are struggling. Israel's 43.3 billion tourism industry is in slump as well Hotel bookings are down 10-20 percent from last year and airlines are facing a similar drop. The tourism industry is hoping...
...stout chewing muscles and their large front teeth suggest anything. Their skill in making tools was limited: a flaked stone or a crude ax was probably as good as it got. They arose in Africa about 1.8 million years ago and later ranged over an impressive expanse of land that included the Middle East, China, Southeast Asia and possibly Europe. But Homo erectus was no match for our species, the glamorous Homo sapiens, and not long after anatomically modern humans appeared some 200,000 years ago, the more primitive hominid died...
...fossil hunters studying evolution, Java has always been a good place to dig. Its equatorial climate makes it home to countless species, and periodic land bridges placed it in the middle of the migratory autobahn between Asia and Australia, making it the perfect spot to study how animals spread. Since the 1890s, numerous fossils of Homo erectus have been found on the island, but scientists were particularly intrigued by more than a dozen partial skulls found near the villages of Ngandong and Sambungmacan in the 1930s and 1970s. The skulls had unusually large braincases, and so were estimated...
...China Blues (Anchor Books). Jan Wong, the privileged daughter of Chinese-Canadian parents in Montreal, became a true-believing Maoist and decided in 1972 to return to the land of her ancestors. The journey was bumpy and led to disillusionment--and also to this lively and shrewd reminiscence. Wong still loves China, but she can laugh at it and her youthful enthusiasms...