Word: sheeps
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Along sandy roads in neighboring Mauritania, the skeletons of hundreds of cattle bake in the sun, picked nearly clean by vultures. Hundreds of other cattle, sheep and goats lie on the parched sand, eyes glassy and ribs protruding, too weak to move. Soon they also will die. In Senegal, desert herdsmen, short of water and grazing land, are driving their scrawny herds to Dakar in a desperate effort to sell the animals before they die. The price for cows these days is as low as $3 a head...
GODSPELL relies mostly on faith, but if you're a lost sheep it won't convince you of anything but the fatuousness of the Jesus movement. Its adherents are an unlikely sort, interesting largely for the diverse backgrounds that lead them to the same place. I've known two of them. One was a girl from Coe College in Iowa whom I worked with in the Ivory Coast one summer. She was studying to be a nurse, and with immense devotion and unparalleled selflessness she cared for the sick, often staying up all night long sponging feverish foreheads. She also...
...enemy flotilla off a coastal city. Following their victory, the Minoans land, sack the city and make off with its valuables. The battle is vividly recreated; men can be seen falling from sinking ships and drowning, women jump in despair off towers, and soldiers lead away looted cattle and sheep. In other panels, the conquerors are welcomed by the inhabitants of two other cities. This activity takes place against a landscape populated by lions, deer, panthers, leopards and even a griffin, the mythical creature with the head and wings of an eagle and the body of a lion...
From the faces of the people and the type of sheep they raised, Marinatos concludes that the action occurred on the coast of Libya. Either allies or colonies of the Minoans, the two friendly cities had apparently summoned naval help against a rival city. If Marinatos is correct, the frieze extends by at least a thousand years the known history of Libya; until now scholars have thought that the earliest reference to Libya was in the chronicles of Herodotus, written about 450 B.C. The frieze also strongly suggests that Thera prospered through trade and occasionally conquest. For these reasons, Marinatos...
Residents of eastern Montana are justifiably proud of their "big sky" country. Its green-brown prairie, dotted by scrub and ponderosa pine, stretches in austere grandeur to a distant horizon. But the stark beauty of this region, into which cattle and sheep ranches comfortably blend, is now being threatened by America's insatiable appetite for energy...