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Natchitoches, an hour southeast of Shreveport, is the state's oldest European settlement and a haven of Cajun history and culture. It was in nearby Melrose that author Kate Chopin lived and gathered material for her colorful collection, Bayou Folk, and numerous other short stories in 1894. Today the Melrose Plantation Arts and Crafts Festival, an annual June event benefiting Chopin's home and library, draws artists from across the nation and several thousand visitors to the Natchitoches area...
...which has been nearly halved in some African nations) and the creation of a disenfranchised poor population with troves of orphans and broken families. AIDS, the report predicts, will tear through sub-Saharan Africa over the next decade and then through the nations of the former Soviet Union and Southeast Asia, devastating masses and exposing them to exploitation and revolutionary forces. Human rights groups estimate that a quarter of sub-Saharan Africa is already infected...
...thought heretical: by boat along the eastern and western coasts of the Americas. A 12,500-year-old settlement in Monte Verde, Chile, for example, seems to have been reached most easily by water. The lack of any evidence of shipbuilding doesn't dissuade Adovasio. Says he: "You had southeast Asians sailing to Australia more than 50,000 years...
...deuce 34. Prefix with chloride or oxide 35. First name at the Fed 37. Kunstler protege Kuby 38. Oakland mayor who's backing Gore 40. Horner's last words 41. "__ primary" (in which voters cross party lines) 43. O'Neill title character 45. Flashing lights, say 46. Island of southeast Greece 47. Connecticut's Golden Hill, for short 48. '50s campaign monogram...
...shift our attention to Mozambique, a country on the Southeast Coast of Africa, about six times the size of North Carolina, though not nearly as densely populated. Nevertheless, three-week long rains, a cyclone and the accompanying floods have displaced at least 200,000 people, and up to 800,000 are in urgent need of food and medical care. Within the last week, helicopters have rescued more than 13,000 people from roofs and trees...