Reaching any goal calls for the step-by-step method. Whoever is determined to achieve great things learns that the stairs of progress are climbed one at a time. A house is

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The Sukuma are the largest ethnic group in Tanzania, a Bantu-speaking people of several million who live in the fertile plains south and east of Lake Victoria. Their name means

In the cool, volcano-studded highlands of West Java live the Sundanese, the second-largest people of Indonesia, distinct in language and character from the Javanese of the east. Heirs to the

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Known as the Tamu, the Gurung of central Nepal’s Annapurna hills are famed for their Gurkha soldiers, the trance-dance Ghatu, and a religion blending Buddhism, Bon, and the shaman.

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One unfinished building blending sixteen faiths into a single rainbow of domes.