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January 14th, 2013
Written by Peter Enav - Associated Press in Latest News with 0 Comments
DAKANUA, Taiwan (AP) — Her eyes lit bright with concentration, Taiwanese linguist Sung Li-may leans in expectantly as one of the planet's last 10 speakers of the Kanakanavu language shares his hopes for the future.
"I am already very old," says 80-year-old Mu'u Ka'angena, a leathery faced man with a tough, sinewy body and deeply veined hands. A light rain falls onto the thatched roof of the...
January 2nd, 2013
Written by Kristi Eaton - Associated Press in Latest News with 0 Comments
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - The country's largest rural, nonprofit hospital system is hiring two traditional Native American healers to train medical staff in the Dakotas and Minnesota in an effort to better serve the American Indian patient population.
Sanford Health is in the process of hiring a Lakota/Dakota and an Ojibwe to serve as consultants as part of a three-year $12 million Center for...
December 6th, 2012
Written by Russ Bynum - Associated Press in Latest News with 0 Comments
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - Their dinner had just arrived as the two college professors watched their guests, a group of singers from the Georgia coast, unexpectedly turn saying grace into an outburst of song, rhythm and shouted praises that soon had other diners in the restaurant joining in with the impromptu performance.
"Before you know it, they're out of their chairs and the beat is getting played...
November 27th, 2012
Written by Ben Adducchio in Latest News with 0 Comments
FAIRMONT, W.Va. (AP) — Judy Byers, the director of the Frank and Jane Gabor West Virginia folklife center, knew at a very young age she would spend her life working in preserving folk culture. She feels like her work is far from being completed.
Byers uses oral storytelling as a method to preserve West Virginia folklore culture.
She's been doing this work for several years, and she discovered her...
November 1st, 2012
Written by Alexa Olesen - Associated Press in Feature Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
BEIJING (AP) - A Chinese government think tank is urging the country's leaders to start phasing out its one-child policy immediately and allow two children for every family by 2015, a daring proposal to do away with the unpopular policy.
Some demographers see the timeline put forward by the China Development Research Foundation as a bold move by the body close to the central leadership. Others...
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