Word: ubong
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...Ubong Udo Edemeka...
...Ubong U. Edemeka '97 said he decided to run after thinking about what Harvard has meant to him in his four years here...
...Ubong U. Edemeka '97 is advertising managerof The Crimson...
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...that their way of life is precious. During the past few years, they have mounted a stirring, nonviolent campaign to defend the forests, which are their libraries, shops and larders. "We cannot be separated from the land where our ancestors have lived," says Asik Nyelik, the headman of Sungai Ubong who has twice been arrested for joining barricades to halt the loggers. Though the lure of modern living has reduced the nomadic Penans from 13,000 two decades ago to perhaps 500 today, those who remain see few advantages in choosing the "barren" road over the spongy, shady forest floor...