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...unique nature of his discoveries, he’s also raising quite a few eyebrows in the world of academia. The Pirahã are a small tribe of Amazonian indigenous people who dwell on the banks of the Maici River, a tributary of the Madeira River in Northwest Brazil. Though they have some contact with the outside world through traders on the river, they speak a very inaccessible, tonal language, and apparently haven’t changed much since the first European explorers encountered them well over two centuries ago. They live on a day-by-day basis, catching only...
Fifteen years ago, Tamil rebels overran a marshy strip along Sri Lanka's northwest coast. Pooneryn became a headache for Colombo: a strategic redoubt, shored up with artillery, that shielded the base of operations of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (L.T.T.E.), one of the world's most dogged insurgent groups. But on Nov. 15, government forces seized Pooneryn, giving Colombo full control over its western seaboard for the first time in over a decade. The government called for a week of celebrations...
...outline how it has been trying to ground the balloons, but Choi says government officials have visited him at his office, sent him letters and e-mails and left messages on his website urging him to knock it off. At today's launch in Kimpo City, 20 miles northwest of Seoul, Choi and other activist groups were followed by police and some military, but weren't hindered. With the anti-Pyongyang activist groups vowing to continue launching their leaflets, the Cold War rivals could find themselves wondering if the past decade of exchanges was just...
...some themes, it appears, are eternal. We curled up together this weekend, my daughter and I, as I read Twilight for the first time, she for the third. It's not 19th century London, but the modern Pacific Northwest is appropriately misty. Here we meet the bright, chaste, passionate heroine Bella and the dark, mysterious and certainly dangerous hero Edward, son of a vampire family that has sworn off human blood but still struggles with the temptation. He has a way of appearing when she's in danger, scooping her into his unnaturally strong arms and carrying her to safety...
Burns Strider, founding partner of the Eleison Group and former religious outreach director for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, says this church in Tenleytown might appeal to you. "Although it's an old church in northwest D.C., the pastor - Rev. Charlie Parker - was once a community organizer. He brings years of not just talking about his faith from a pulpit but also doing it," says Strider. The worship style and theology of Methodists isn't terribly different from what you're used to in the UCC denomination. And, Strider notes, there are a lot of children's programs at Metropolitan...