Word: lande
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...room house he pointed out where the Zhu clan's palace once stood. It had "dozens of rooms" and a covered walkway leading over the hill to the family temple. "We used to say that whichever path you took from here to Changsha, you had to pass over Zhu land," says Yunzhong. The palace was destroyed in an antilandlord campaign in the 1950s, but Zhu's privileged background was not forgotten by Mao's regime...
Kosovo began glowing on the radar screen of Clinton's foreign policy at the start of 1998. The province has a complicated genealogy: it is populated mostly by Albanians, but for 600 years it has been a lantern of Serbian passion. Serbs venerate the land because it is home to several important monasteries, and in 1389 their ancestors lost a decisive battle with the Ottoman Empire there, setting off 500 years of Turkish rule. The day of the battle is a national holiday--something that last week caused observers to note that understanding the Serb outlook meant understanding a country...
...spreads through the land as we close out the century. We're all hooked up to everything but peace of mind, and it shows in the cathode pallor we carry; we are a Night of the Living Dead army of zombies wondering if we've got unopened e-mail. Nobody, with the possible exception of Congress, knows how to do nothing anymore...
...CALLED US] blessed land...
...American Edwin Land demonstrates the Polaroid camera he invented...