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...Much of west Africa's rich musical heritage is born out of the "griots" tradition - a caste of wandering musicians who use music to tell oral history, a bit like bards in medieval Europe. Modern-day griots also use rhythm and rhyme to help raise local awareness of issues like HIV-AIDS, a tradition which has been usurped by a new generation of young musicians. "I don't want to just play music, I have a mission to wake up African people," explains Kane...
...lesson that Boeing (now based in Chicago) has learned. And it wasn't an easy one. Not long ago, the company was under fire for losing ground to Airbus, based in Toulouse, France, the competitor that had just primed its ascendancy by investing $10 billion in a modern-day Spruce Goose, the 555-seat A380. In 2003 a paper by two professors at the State University of New York at Buffalo even suggested that Boeing would be out of the jetliner business by 2013--the year the largest 787 model, the 787-10, is now set to launch...
...love for mankind from a creator that will not stop loving us. It is with this love, belief and acceptance of Jesus as his Saviour that will he will be led to his eternal home and back to his precious Ruth. Thank you, Rev. Graham, for being our modern-day Paul and fighting the good fight...
...following some four decades of home footage and documentary film, we get a glimpse into the life of a man whose firm individualism, passion for the land and artistic creativity take him down a bumpy road from near-bankruptcy to modern-day agricultural success...
...modern-day Japan, a nation not known for in-your-face protesters, voluble writer and peace activist Makoto Oda was an anomaly. In 1965, citing his core belief in "100% freedom for the individual," the author of the best-selling travelogue I'll Go Everywhere and See Everything co-founded a grass-roots "citizens' league" to oppose U.S. involvement in Vietnam. His group gained converts and motivated a generation of young Japanese activists. Oda, one of TIME ASIA's 2002 heroes, was 75 and had cancer...