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...Other Ways to Help ? Join Country Walkers' tree-planting project in Costa Rica to create a corridor for mono titi monkeys ? Improve health conditions in remote regions with Medicines Global by packing extra first-aid kits ? To offset the CO2 emissions released during your travels, go to treesftf.org and purchase CO2-consuming trees ($1 will offset a round-trip domestic flight, $3 an international...
...lies curled up as if only asleep, knees drawn to her chest, arms wrapped around them, tucked snugly in a nook between the coral boulders. But this woman is long dead, and her bones are as white as the coral branches that have crept among them like tree roots. Around her, lying in other cavities in the sharp rock and covered by volcanic ash, are the resting places of more human bones, all arranged in different positions of repose. Bats wheel above on the wind, which rushes through the coconut palms and sets the blue tarpaulin covering the graves flapping...
...Buddhist heartland in eastern India has fared worst of all. The original fig tree at Bodhgaya?under which Prince Siddhartha became the enlightened Buddha?burned down centuries ago. Today, hawkers sell leaves from a replacement tree for $1 apiece. A swath of hotels and shops encroach on the temple complex, and police say looters have stolen hundreds of artifacts, an allegation that temple manager Kallicharan Yadav dismisses as "baseless." What is undeniable is that Hindu priests have turned parts of the Buddhist holy site into shrines to their own gods. A day's drive away, Nalanda University, the wellspring from...
...Spanish heritage but says he also felt a spiritual connection "to Israel and the chosen people." Although he was raised Catholic, his mother followed many Jewish traditions, such as covering mirrors in the house when someone died. But it wasn't until Sanchez took a test from Family Tree DNA in Houston that he learned he had inherited genetic markers for the Cohanim, Jewish high priests said to be descended from Moses' brother Aaron...
...less controversial aspects of genetic genealogy is its ability to help people fill in gaps in their family tree. Leo Little, a retired engineer in Austin, Texas, had used historical records to trace his lineage back to his great-great-grandfather Thomas Little, who was born in Alabama in 1816. Then, he says, "I hit a brick wall. I knew my Littles were from the South, but there were a lot of Littles from the South, and it was impossible to sort out." After he took a DNA test from Family Tree DNA, he began leading one of the company...