Word: papua
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...Sydney, a city devoted to sport, it's not unusual to see fans trooping through the streets, decked in team colors and chanting team anthems. Right now, there are more visitors than at any time since the 2000 Olympics. They carry the flags of many nations - Poland, Korea, Papua New Guinea, Argentina. But there's no rivalry. Groups meet on street corners and merge: "We're from Germany. You?" "Hong Kong." Handshakes all around. Then, the limits of English conversation reached, someone sings: "Oh, when the saints ..." Everyone joins in, if only to hum. They all know the same tunes...
...declaration however, the Tuesday magazine “application” asks a series of questions aimed at identifying “qualified candidates”—though a tone of self-derision is apparent in questions such as, “What is the capital of Papua New Guinea...
...hardly the first time the U.S. has been jeered at a UN event, but what happened next was unique. Nation after developing nation rose to criticize the U.S. in language more often reserved for a political debate than a UN conference. A representative from tiny Papua New Guinea - one of many small island states most immediately threatened by climate change - recalled the old Lee Iacocca line about leading, following or getting out of the way. "If the U.S. will not lead, get out of the way," he said, to gallery cheers. "Please...
...date, Prawoto's commissions have included a bookshop, a museum and 10 houses in Yogyakarta (none of which suffered more than superficial damage during the quake) as well as churches, cafés and community centers in Bali and Papua. Then there was his contribution to a 2003 architectural exhibition in Siena, Italy: large Roman-style archways, made of straw instead of triumphal stone because straw happened to be the most common local material...
...PAPUA NEW GUINEA...