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...million-strong demographic group, however important, within a single country over the study of the second largest continent in the world, with 54 sovereign states and over 800 million people, a seventh of the total world population. Africa contains a multitude of different cultures and peoples living in a land-mass of great climactic, topological, ecological diversity. It boasts the longest human history in the world, featuring several proud and vibrant civilizations...
...fronts. As owner of Poland Spring, which uses 500 million gallons of Maine water a year, Nestlé could owe $96 million in tax each year if Wilfong's proposal is passed. "His mission is misguided," says Kim Jeffery, CEO of Nestlé North America, which now pays only for the land where the springs are found. In response to a new tax, he says, Nestlé would cancel a planned new plant, costing the state 250 jobs...
...storytelling principle at work in Rice's Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt, which is her version of the Holy Family's return from Egypt's Alexandria to Nazareth and a Holy Land rocked with violence following Herod's death. Rice is Catholic, but when she focuses on Joseph, she is writing not hagiography but a modern description of his leadership of a sizable clan and his reluctance to tell the boy Jesus too much of his backstory until he is more mature. "I think he was a resolute man, an unshakable man, but he had no need to make...
...voters' minds. This was not so much political strategy as the almost theological mission of the amateur philosopher and published poet McCarthy was. Lines from his poem "Vietnam Message" could be the words of Gandhi or Pablo Neruda: "We will take our napalm and flame throwers/ out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches .../ We will leave you your small joys/ and smaller troubles...
...nonprofit educational institution, the University is exempt from property taxes. Because Harvard’s acquisition of the Arsenal would remove the land from the tax rolls, Watertown faced the prospect of losing a substantial amount of revenue—one-third of its entire commercial tax base—from a site that it had spent a decade redeveloping...