The Jinuo people are incredibly knowledgeable about their forests, and claim to have uses for most of the plants that they find there. They have names for them all, those good for eating, and some which even have strong medicinal qualities. By workin

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The unfortunate thing is every single person, with the exception of my closest friend, Gale, said to me you are not gonna make it. Everybody told me that I wasn't gonna make it. Those same people now are saying, no, we never, we always knew. But that

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That's OK, Ill clean it up. Oops, now you notice how my kitchen is, right? I was used to from one wrong thing after another. Im talking about the fighting allinis. I didn't even know who they were. I was calling them the Illinis. And it was a total m

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Im on the trail of Haruki Murakami, the elusive Haruki Murakami. Hes Japans most successful novelist. He writes off-beat books where dream, memory and reality often swap places with one another. His stories are fueled by his great passionmusic, espec

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Murakami turned Japanese literature on its head, writing novels and short stories heavily influenced by Western literature that were contemporary, humorous, and that often slipped into the surreal. Hello, mister, whats the matter, lost your guidebook

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And that is the beginning of the prophetic career of Muhammad. The months to come would bring more revelations, powerful words of a lyrical quality, more beautiful than the most exquisite Arabic poetry. Above all, Muhammad was to bear one message to

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For Muhammad's followers, leaving the place of their ancestors, their families and tribes was the ultimate test of devotion. In doing so, they began a new community, a new tribe. For the first time, they were bound together not by blood, but by faith

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To the non-believers, the divine reckoning Muhammad invoked wasnt average. His dismantling of their heritage and customs deeply unset them. It was a threat, a threat in several ways, to their social order, to their age-old traditions, and an economic

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Rather than a physical image of God or of Muhammad, it is the beauty of the Koran itself that is celebrated in Islam. Islam developed in this context where pictures were not favored. The Koran, as it was revealed, was Gods representation on earth, an

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Muhammad's following began to grow. They called themselves Muslims for those who surrendered to God. They set out to preserve the message Muhammad had brought. This was the beginning of the Koran. The Koran was revealed orally, but very soon people r

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She was so taken with Muhammad, she proposed marriage. Ah, Hadijia, well I think she was a mentor as well as a wife, a very strong lady who had her own business, and Muhammad was helping her out, so it was a wonderful partnership and I'm sure he lear

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Each clan had its own separate gods and totems to water and wind, fire and night. They were kept in the caravan town of Mecca, in a shrine of wood, stone and cloth. It was called, the Kaaba, the Arabic word for Cube. Pre-Islamic-Arabs worshiped a num

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Muhammads clan, like Arabs all across the Arabian Peninsula, would share the stories that had been told and retold for generations. Pre-Islamic-Arabian civilization was largely an oral culture, and with tremendous respect for and admiration for peopl

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To Muslims, the life of Muhammad is a story revered in its mysteries as much as its certainties that our beliefs held sacred. Whatever we can tell about the prophet, of course, is screened through the filter of what has been preserved over the centur

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But Simon was a nutter. Simon had tremendous presence like an emperor. He sat still and silent, and in his contest between flesh and the devil, it seemed to most people, that he was beyond touch. And there he was, on his pillar, half way between heav

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It was fun. It was thrilling. You could invite anybody you wanted in the world to come on your show and sit and talk to you. Didn't mean they come, but a whole world and myriad of people did. Do you know how long your tongue is, I hear that its, usua

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It had a few windows on the north side, but these were pressed against the mountain, which is why the corridor was always dark. And it was almost always silent, in my memory at least. I'm not exactly sure why the girl from Ipanema reminds me of the h

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I used to speak in the church all the time and the sisters in the front row fanning themselves would say to my grandmother, Hattie Mae, this child sure can talk. So if those sisters were alive today, well theyd be shocked because I'm still talking. I

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Let's welcome the Channel 13's People Are Talking, the fabulous Oprah Winfrey. I was given an assignment to co-host with Richard Sher who is still in Baltimore. My first interview was with the Carvel Ice-cream man, its mini play first, and Benny from

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Welcome Roger. Nice to be here. Thank you. Thank you. Roger Ebert and I had gone on a date. Roger Ebert and I had gone out, and now I guess thats what it was. I think it was a date. We went out. We went to a movie and yeah, I think it was. They are n

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