Word: traveler
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...election. The woman, who lives among jackals in the burning ground, tells us why it's best to drink blood from the skull of a suicide or virgin. As an erudite scholar, Dalrymple gives us a precedent and a context for all this. As a fluent and vivid travel writer, he evokes the landscapes of the land he loves, and bullock carts that "trundle along red dirt roads, past village duck ponds, and the tall, rain-wet fans of banana trees...
...financial meltdown weren’t enough, this spring introduced scary words like “novel virus” and “pandemic,” bumping the financial crisis off the headlines. The attention-grabbing RNA virus took the world by surprise and, thanks to air travel, spread rapidly from its origin in Mexico to every continent. The virus’ spread was a perfect storm of mutation (a combination of swine, human, and avian elements), little to no human immunity, and no available vaccine against it. To make matters worse, everyone was touting its similarity...
Announcing on Oct. 30 that the U.S. government would reverse a "decision rooted in fear rather than fact," President Barack Obama ended a travel and immigration ban on HIV-positive noncitizens trying to enter the U.S. without a special waiver. The reversal was first signed into law by George W. Bush in 2008, but the White House was unable to finalize the change before his term ended...
...Walt Disney pursue plans to construct a 1,000-acre (40 hectare) theme park in Shanghai, at an estimated cost of nearly $4 billion--one of the largest foreign investments in the country's history. Disney already operates a theme park in Hong Kong, which has struggled because of travel restrictions and visa requirements that limit access for many of China's 1.3 billion residents...
...Harvard students, we have the option to take time off and travel anywhere in the world. Timbuktu...Bora Bora...northern California? Junior Janie D’Ambrosia of Radcliffe heavyweight crew took a break from Cambridge this past spring to experience the latter...