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...simply because of environmental pressures to conform. “In that moment,” Wolfe writes, “originated a discovery that has since radically altered the understanding of animal and human behaviour: the existence—indeed, pervasiveness—of ‘cultural para-stimuli...
DEMI'S NEW PARA-MOORE IS A SOPHO-MOORE
PAKISTAN Up in Arms At least 2,500 Pashtun tribesmen in Pakistan held a demonstration to protest against an army operation to hunt down suspected al-Qaeda fighters. Pakistani para-milit ary troops destroyed houses where the wanted men were suspected of hiding and detained four people in the village of Jani Khel in the tribal areas near Afghanistan. Local elders said that the six suspects were not members of al-Qaeda but students from a local religious school...
...urbanist. His life’s work has been the preservation and restoration of Havana, a UNESCO world heritage city. He has struggled against great odds to rescue and restore buildings and entire neighborhoods. He won international acclaim for his work as director of Havana’s Grupo para el Desarrollo Integral de la Capital (GDIC), the equivalent of our National Capital Planning Commission. His many papers and articles have been widely published. His most recent publication in this country is the 1997 book Havana: Two Faces of the Antillean Metropolis, co-authored with Joseph Scarpaci and published...
...histories, and allows players to choose characters and place them in different milieus and time periods. Through this device, Joshi juxtaposes events in India's history with personal experiences of each Bhatt member, leaving readers to puzzle over the possible links. In book two, for instance, the tale of Para Bhatt executing a near-perfect air strike to demolish Saudi Arabian tanks positioned in the Kharan area on the Pakistan-Iran border is intertwined with stories of Mahadev and young Paresh Bhatt capturing the aftermath of the 1971 Pakistan-Indian war on film...