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...later). Acquaintances say they're flat out with mahi (work) and have a hui (meeting) to get to. John Macalister, a writing teacher at Victoria University of Wellington, returned to New Zealand in 1997 after 16 years away and felt like a foreigner. Forced to look up one te reo (Maori) word after another, he started jotting them down. The list "just continued to grow," he says. "After a while, I felt I couldn't stop...
...tattooed; haka-ing for dancing), and playing with them to create hybrids like maka-chilly (from makariri, cold). "You can't get far these days without having to use a Maori word," says Haami Piripi, chief executive of the Maori Language Commission, which promotes the use of te reo. It's a heartening trend, he says: "If words aren't spoken, they don't live" - and 20 years ago, Maori was dying. What worries Piripi and other cultural gatekeepers is that even as it gives oxygen to a few hundred Maori words, English - by its sheer boisterous vitality - is knocking...
...been adding Maori words to its lexicon since Captain Cook noted that fortified Maori villages were called pa. British settlers readily adopted Maori names for indigenous animals and plants, from kakapo birds to kauri pines. But the use of Maori words has surged in the past 15 years as te reo schools have multiplied and Maori activists gained clout. Terms like kaumatua (tribal elder) and taonga (cultural treasures) have come into play because they express concepts for which there's no English equivalent, says Macalister. But some words have been picked up because they're more economical than English. Ngati...
...although vaccinations resumed last summer, by then it was too late to put the genie back in the bottle. Cases of polio genetically consistent with the Nigerian strain had begun popping up, in succession, in more than 10 neighboring countries, including Chad, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Côte d'Ivoire and Sudan. Last November the same virus appeared in Saudi Arabia, two months before the hajj, when 2 million Muslims from around the world descended on Mecca and then returned to their home countries, perhaps carrying more than just their memories with them. Investigators are still looking into the possibility...
...te d'Or chocolate. Food should be a pleasure. One of our goals is to combine the joy of food with good nutrition. There's room for all foods in a diet...