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Joseph and Nereciana reinhabited a familial plot in Rwankogoto and began the process of building their dirt-floor, four-room hut from bamboo, reeds and mud. The house, perched on a hillside overlooking a fertile valley, catches morning sun and stores the warmth all day within its thick stucco walls. They built a thatched-roof outhouse, a rabbit hutch and a chicken coop. They cleared four acres of farmland and sowed their first crop: manioc, beans, peanuts, pineapples and sweet potatoes. Her sisters lent Nereciana pots and empty jerricans that she filled with bananas, yeast and hops to ferment banana...
...from an old pit nearby. In 1989, McAvoy's team began excavations, now sponsored by the National Geographic Society and the state of Virginia. So far, the team has unearthed a variety of Paleo-Indian stone tools shaped for hunting, butchering and processing game; charred bones of mud turtles, white-tailed deer and other mammals; and bits of charcoal left over from hunting parties' cooking this prey...
...mouthed rebel was sexy. No one wants a bad boy anymore. Women, it seems, have traded in the "man" for the "boy"-the ultra-sensitive male, the girl's guy. What distinguishes a "boy" from a "man?" A boy is secure in his sexual ambiguity-he works in the mud by day, cooks and writes verse by night. A boy doesn't pose because he knows the attraction of his own feminine appeal. But do girls really want a boy who knows how to exfoliate? Hell yeah, according to this month's Talk Magazine-the new heterosexual ideal is "Just...
...after growing to half a ton, Henrietta finally took her last roll in the mud...
...that remains of the mud-and-concrete church building that nestled on the side of a pretty, eucalyptus-studded hill near the town of Kanungu, in southwestern Uganda, is a few sheets of corrugated tin that twist and snap in the wind. More than a week after leaders of an obscure indigenous Christian cult led, or perhaps forced, their followers into the building, poured gasoline around and then set, or had their followers set, fire to the place, the site has become a macabre graveyard. Police bulldozed the building and its grisly contents--at least 330, and perhaps as many...