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...Whangara people of New Zealand search for a new tribal leader to follow in the legacy of their ancestor Paikea, who was once saved from drowning by riding on the back of a whale. The would-be heir to the title of chief dies during birth, while his twin sister, Pai, survives. A natural leader, Pai grows up striving to overcome the odds of gender oppression in her tribe and engages in a quest for the title of chief. The performance is moving and well acted, although meanings of some tribal references are lost on Western audiences. Director Niki Caro?...
...Still, while the problems of democracy and security in Africa may once have been contemplated from a polite distance, President Bush's trip may usher in an era in which the twin U.S. concerns of energy and terrorism increasingly compel Washington to embrace some of Africa's problems...
...disappointed by the government" and the "declining standards" of the country's financially ailing health care system that he decided to move where "taking care of the sick is still being done the way it should be." Last August, the 38-year-old, his wife Frauke, 40, and their twin sons Marek and Nils, 6, left Berlin to take up a well-paid, 35-hour-per-week job at a home for the elderly in the small Norwegian coastal town of Molde (pop. 24,000), three hours west of Trondheim. "I did not feel as if things would change...
...LAUNCHED. Spirit, the first of two NASA rovers to explore the surface of Mars; in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Scheduled for touchdown next January, Spirit and its twin, Opportunity, set for launch later this month, will study the geology of Mars, looking for evidence that a vast area of water once existed on its surface. Only three NASA spacecraft have successfully landed on Mars, which some scientists label a "spacecraft graveyard...
Daniel compares his experience to that of his twin brother, now a senior at Cambridge University back home in England...