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...looking for a few good Pashto speakers. Also, according to an appeal posted on the FBI website today, the bureau is seeking fluent speakers and readers of Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Bulgarian, Burmese, Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Indonesian, Kazakh, Korean, Kurdish, Malay, Malayalam, Serbo-Croatian, Somali, Swahili, Tajik, Thai, Tamil, Tigrinya, Turkish, Turkmen, Uigur, Urdu, Uzbek, and Vietnamese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Linguists: The Feds Want You | 10/14/2003 | See Source »

...sculptural relief of a jaunty schooner, its bow thrust upward by a swell, carved some 1,200 years ago at Borobudur, the magnificent Buddhist monument not far from Yogyakarta. Roaming across the Indonesian islands on a grant to study traditional ships, Beale had read that sailors from the Malay Archipelago regularly crossed the Indian Ocean, and even established colonies in East Africa, centuries before Borobudur was built. As he gazed at the sculpture, a great idea possessed him: this, he thought, was the very ship that the ancient Indonesians sailed to Africa. With the boldness and singular clarity of youth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sailing in History's Wake | 9/1/2003 | See Source »

...Though largely unknown outside of the region, this was one of the first great achievements in marine exploration: centuries before anybody else engaged in regular long-distance voyages, mariners from the Malay Archipelago ruled the Indian Ocean. The Roman historian Pliny wrote in the first century A.D. about sailors arriving in Africa from the eastern sea on rafts, propelled not by sails but by "the spirit of man and human courage," carrying cinnamon and other spices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sailing in History's Wake | 9/1/2003 | See Source »

...comes to each dinner table and informs you what the kitchen has fresh that day. Maybe red snapper or barramundi. Perhaps green prawns, a range of vegetables, even locally reared venison. Once you select a main dish, you can choose how you'd like it prepared. Thai-style? Chinese? Malay? Or?if you must?deep-fried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weekend Getaways: Malaysia | 4/7/2003 | See Source »

...Dining The package includes three meals each day, which can be taken at either the hotel's main restaurant or at the Nelayan (Malay for fisherman), which specializes in barbecued seafood. There are also snack bars located next to the pools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weekend Getaways: Malaysia | 4/7/2003 | See Source »

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